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JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – For a second consecutive day, Mexican police in riot gear removed Venezuelan migrants from a makeshift camp near the Rio Grande.
Monday’s action took place at a park in the Bella Vista neighborhood where some 100 Venezuelans ousted Sunday from a tent camp along the Rio Grande moved to, rather than go to shelters.
“There will be a police presence to prevent them from going to the river. I know that today we see them in other places. We’ll start a dialogue because we are trying to avoid new settlements,” City Secretary Hector Ortiz said at a news conference on Monday.
A day earlier, Juarez police and Mexican National Guard troops showed in force at a tent camp along the Rio Grande occupied by nearly 600 Venezuelan and Central American migrants were staying since mid-October.
A scuffle broke out when the migrants realized they were being kicked out, but in the end, they left of their own accord, Ortiz said.
“The International Boundary and Water Commission had alerted us to some safety concerns. There was a risk of drownings with the tents to close to the river. There was also a high risk of fire. They had a lot of tents with blankets inside and at the same time they had wood stoves and lit fires at night to mitigate the cold temperatures,” Ortiz said. “They were in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. […] This was communicated to (the migrants), we realized we would not convince them to leave, so at noon the cleanup began.”
The city brought buses to the river so the Venezuelans could go to shelters. But out of the 600 ousted on Sunday, only 94 agreed to go to shelters.
“We are not going because what they want is to lock us up, to bury us as if we were not human beings,” said Gladys Belen, a Venezuelan migrant kicked out of the riverbank tent city on Sunday and from the Bella Vista park on Monday. “They will keep us at the shelter for a week, they will ask us for a valid reason every time we want to go out [….] and then they will send us back (to Venezuela).”
Fernando Garcia, head of the El Paso-based Border Network for Human Rights, called the migrants’ removal “inhumane.”
“The BNHR is appalled and immensely disappointed by the Mexican authorities’ actions to evict hundreds of Venezuelan asylum seekers from ‘Little Venezuela, an encampment located along the Rio Grande river,” Garcia said. “Children, women, and families were subjected to unnecessary violence and confrontation. As a human rights organization, we condemn violence and the use of force against human lives, regardless of the grounds or the entity that provokes it.”
He called on Mexican authorities to cease using force against individuals and families who are seeking in the United States the safety they could not find in their own countries. He said the organization would continue to be vigilant of further violence against migrants.
Meantime, Ortiz and Juarez Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar on Monday said they don’t understand why the Venezuelans won’t go to shelters and denied Mexican authorities plan to deport them back to their country.
Ortiz characterized the migrants’ desire to be in a highly visible place such as the Rio Grande – just across from a U.S. Border Patrol temporary processing camp in El Paso, Texas – as a political protest.
Thousands of Venezuelans were processed there prior to Oct. 12 and, in many cases, released on parole to shelters in El Paso whether they had sponsors or not. After that, Venezuelans crossing the river were expelled under the Title 42 public health order. Mexican officials said many of those were expelled not through Juarez, but other far-off Mexican border cities.
A U.S. federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled Title 42 unlawful and given the Biden administration until Dec. 21 to do away with it.
Officials in El Paso and in Juarez have told Border Report they expect a new, perhaps unprecedented new surge of asylum-seekers whenever Title 42 goes away.
Dismantling of migrant tent camps ‘no human rights violation’
Asked if the police action against the Venezuelans was lawful, City Human Rights Office coordinator Santiago Gonzalez Reyes said it’s not a human rights violation to prevent people from doing harm to themselves or to their children. He said several children and adults had come down with respiratory illnesses since the cold weather began to set in a couple of weeks ago.
Further, he said as soon as some Venezuelans left the tent camp, others started coming in. “More than a camp, it was becoming a station. You saw people on a given week, and the following week they were not there anymore. That’s why the dialogue became fruitless,” he said.
Perez Cuellar said U.S. officials have told their Mexican counterparts that rules have been set for Venezuelan asylum-seekers and they will not be bent. He believes the migrants are either being misinformed or manipulated by third parties.
“I don’t know who is manipulating them,” the mayor said on Monday. “Juarez is very generous to migrants; what we are offering at the shelters is a thousand times better” than to be inside a tent by the river. | 2022-11-28T23:37:22+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/border-report-tour/riot-police-oust-migrants-from-second-camp-near-rio-grande/ |
New online dashboard to help flyers with delays, cancellations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the Department of Transportation has launched a customer service dashboard to help vacationers ahead of the travel-heavy Labor Day weekend.
Starting Thursday, travelers will be able to check the dashboard and see what kinds of guarantees, refunds or compensation the major domestic airlines offer in case of flight delays or cancellations. It’s designed to allow travelers to shop around and favor those airlines that offer the best compensation.
The dashboard is part of an extended pressure campaign from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has publicly challenged the major carriers to improve service and transparency after a summer marred by cancellations and flight delays. As summer travel returned to nearly pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, airlines struggled to keep pace, with mass cancellations being blamed on staffing shortages, particularly among pilots.
“Passengers deserve transparency and clarity on what to expect from an airline when there is a cancelation or disruption,” Buttigieg said in a statement Wednesday. The new tool, he said, will help travelers to “easily understand their rights, compare airline practices, and make informed decisions.”
The dashboard compares all the major domestic airlines’ policies on issues such as which offer meals for delays of more than three hours and which offer to rebook flights on the same or different airlines at no additional charge. It focuses on what it calls “controllable” cancellations or delays — meaning those caused by mechanical issues, staffing shortages or delays in cleaning, fueling or baggage handling. Delays or cancellations caused by weather or security concerns do not count.
The Department of Transportation is hoping that the dashboard will encourage competition among airlines to offer the most transparency and the best protections for customers.
So far this year, airlines have canceled about 146,000 flights, or 2.6% of all flights, and nearly 1.3 million flights have been delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The rate of cancellations is up about one-third from the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, and the rate of delays is up nearly one-fourth.
Federal officials have blamed many of the disruptions on understaffing at airlines, which encouraged employees to quit after the pandemic started. The airlines have countered by blaming staffing problems at the Federal Aviation Administration, which employs air traffic controllers.
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Associated Press writer David Koenig in Dallas contributed to this report.
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Popular car auction website Bring a Trailer never fails to impress with the variety of vehicles that show up in its listings.
Take for example this Acura ARX-05 DPi race car, which at the time of publication has a bid of $175,000 and eight days left to go in its sale.
First spotted by Jalopnik, the listing was posted by Honda’s own Honda Performance Development motorsports division. It’s for the no. 10 Acura ARX-05 DPi built and raced by Wayne Taylor Racing in the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship season.
The car was completed in late 2021 and entered in 10 races during the 2022 season. It managed wins at races held at Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, and Road America, which led to it taking second in the Teams’ Championship, behind the no. 60 Acura ARX-05 fielded by Meyer Shank Racing. The listing says the car has run 11,000 miles.
Power comes from a twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 paired with a 6-speed sequential transmission from Xtrac. The chassis is an Oreca design and features a double-wishbone pushrod suspension, electronically assisted rack-and-pinion steering, an air-jack system, and a brake package consisting of Brembo 6-piston calipers and AP Racing carbon-ceramic rotors. Staggered Rotiform 18-inch forged-aluminum wheels are wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport P2L tires.
A chassis tag mounted to the carbon-fiber tub lists this ARX-05 as chassis number seven.
The availability of a top-level race car in almost complete form represents a rare opportunity for collectors. The buyer won’t be able to compete with it in future seasons of the SportsCar Championship, though.
The DPi class will be replaced next year by the return of the GTP class as the premier class of the SportsCar Championship. The GTP class will be eligible for both the new LMDh race cars and the existing LMH cars. Acura will be present, competing with a new ARX-06 LMDh race car.
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- Ferrari F1 team names new chief | 2022-12-16T01:15:51+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/automotive/internet-brands/2022-acura-arx-05-dpi-race-car-listed-on-bring-a-trailer/ |
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Effectual, a modern, cloud first managed and professional services company, announced today that its public sector arm has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification. Effectual Public Sector Inc. provides mission-critical IT modernization solutions to Federal, State, Local, Education, and Nonprofit organizations. ISO 9001:2015 is a globally recognized quality management standard developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
ISO 9001 is the world's most widely recognized quality management standard, developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It guides companies in developing a quality management system that aligns with their global business strategy. The ISO 9001 standard places a focus on evidence-based decision-making and accountability across all organizational processes to improve communications, operating efficiency, customer focus, and employee engagement. This enables companies to operate more effectively, provide high levels of customer satisfaction and drives continuous improvement.
"Achieving ISO 9001 certification is part of Effectual's ongoing commitment to achieving and maintaining the highest standards of quality and compliance," said Effectual CEO Robb Allen. "This accreditation further reinforces our customer's trust in us as a partner for mission critical digital transformation."
The ISO 9001:2015 certification provides a model for companies of all types and sizes to use in building an effective quality management system. The certification provides a process-oriented approach to documenting and reviewing the structure, responsibilities, and procedures required to achieve effective quality management in an agency to help organizations ensure their customers consistently receive high quality products and services. With demonstrated success in providing innovative cloud solutions, Effectual is continuously evolving its products and implementing new tools to achieve positive customer outcomes.
With the credentials, certifications, and contract vehicles to ensure successful outcomes, Effectual Public Sector Inc.'s US-based teams have the proven ability to architect, build, secure, and manage highly scalable environments.
Effectual holds over 200 AWS Certifications and has achieved the AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) designation, AWS Migration Consulting Competency, AWS DevOps Consulting Competency, AWS Mobile Consulting Competency, AWS SaaS Consulting Competency, AWS Government Consulting Competency, and AWS Nonprofit Consulting Competency designations. The company is also a member of the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program, AWS Public Sector Partner Programs, as well as the AWS GovCloud (US) and Authority to Operate on AWS Programs.
For more details on ISO 9001:2015, visit: https://www.iso.org/standard/62085.html
An AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Effectual is a modern, cloud first managed and professional services company that works with commercial enterprises and the public sector to enable digital transformation and full stack IT modernization. Effectual's deeply experienced and passionate team of problem solvers apply proven methodologies to enable positive business outcomes with Amazon Web Services and VMware Cloud on AWS. Effectual is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and the PCI Security Standards Council.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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405 AM CDT Mon Jul 25 2022
...HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED TODAY...
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produce heat indices between 105 and 109 degrees today. Residents
with outdoor activities planned are urged to drink plenty of water,
wear light weight and light colored clothing and take frequent breaks
from the heat. Young children and pets should never be left
unattended in vehicles under any circumstances. This is especially
true during warm or hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal
temperatures in a matter of minutes.
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Manny Pacquiao returns to the ring in an epic clash of styles versus South Korean martial arts star DK Yoo in Seoul on December 10 in a match that will stream live on FITE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the only eight-division world champion in boxing and the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes, Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2) is used to making history, and he did it again when he announced his return to the ring by being in two places at once.
On December 10, Pacquiao will meet South Korean martial arts star DK Yoo in Seoul in a pay-per-view event presented by Triller Fight Club and FITE, the largest digital sports and entertainment platform in the world, owned by Triller. Pacquiao was in Seoul during a press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, but he was able to appear live via hologram alongside Yoo to announce the fight.
"All fighters that go up into the ring, the intention is to get a knockout," said Pacquiao. "My style is going to be aggressive with more punches and footwork, because I'm used to fighting a bigger guy."
Described by some boxing historians as the greatest southpaw fighter of all time, Pacquiao is the first boxer to win world championships across four decades and became the oldest welterweight world champion in boxing history at the age of 40 in 2019. During his career, Pacquiao's fights have generated more than 20 million pay-per-view buys worth more than $1.3 billion in revenue.
DK Yoo is a South Korean fighter who last stepped into the ring last December against former UFC contender Bradley Scott in an exhibition bout streamed live on FITE. Yoo is best known as the master and creator of the Warfare Combat System, a martial arts method that teaches students how to effectively control and utilize the mind and body to achieve their goals.
"I respect Manny Pacquiao, and he's one of the best boxers in the world," said Yoo at the Los Angeles press conference. "But I'm younger, I'm heavier, and I have longer arms than him, so I'm going to focus on that."
"The entire team at Triller is ecstatic," said David Tetreault, President of Triller Fight Club. "It's reminiscent of the idea of an imaginary fight that people wanted to do back in the 70s between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee. We're actually doing it with Manny Pacquiao versus D.K. Yoo."
"PacMan vs. DK Yoo" is the latest combat sports event presented by Triller Fight Club, which shook up the sports and entertainment world in 2020 when boxing legends Mike Tyson and Roy Jones battled in Los Angeles in a pay-per-view event that garnered 1.6 million buys. Manny Pacquiao's return to the ring is one of many fight cards rounding out Triller Fight Club's 2022 boxing calendar including "Lineage of Greatness II" featuring undefeated heavyweight Kenzie "TCB" Morrison (20-0, 18 KOs), junior lightweight contender Jose Luis Castillo Jr, (24-3, 18 KOs), welterweight prospect Roberto Duran Jr. (9-2, 7 KOs) and the pro debut of middleweight Steve Cunningham Jr. in Kansas City on October 22.
"We've got a number of events to close out the year," said Tetreault. "We start next week with Lineage of Greatness II, then we move into November with a Future Stars event and another Lineage of Greatness card, and then, of course, the Pacquiao-Yoo fight on December 10. Then, in the new year, it's all about Triller returning to its roots and doing the blockbusters and entertaining fans around the world."
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Triller is the AI-powered open garden technology platform for creators. Pairing music culture with sports, fashion, entertainment, and influencers through a 360-degree view of content and technology, Triller encourages its influencers to post the content created on the app across different social media platforms and uses proprietary AI technology to push and track their content virally to affiliated and non-affiliated sites and networks, enabling them to reach millions of additional users. Triller additionally owns Triller Fight Club and Bare Knuckle Fight Championship; VERZUZ, the live-stream music platform launched by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland; Amplify.ai, a leading customer engagement platform; FITE, a premier global PPV, AVOD, and SVOD streaming site; and Thuzio, a leader in B2B premium influencer events and experiences.
FITE is the premium global platform for live sports and entertainment offering many of the industry's marquee PPV events and SVOD packages with over 6MM registered users. FITE is available worldwide through its iOS and Android mobile apps, Apple TV, Android TV, ROKU, Amazon Fire TV and Huawei apps. In addition, FITE supports Samsung, LG, Cox Contour, Vizio SmartCast™, Virgin Media, Shaw Communications' Blue Curve IPTV, Foxxum, Chromecast, PS4, XBOX, ZEASN, Netrange, Vidaa/Hisense, VEWD, Netgem TV, Comcast's Xfinity 1 and Xfinity Flex as well as 7,000 models of Smart TVs. Available online at www.FITE.tv. Follow on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIN and Facebook.
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During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spent more than a third of their income on rent went up, according to survey results released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Providing the most detailed data to date on how life changed in the U.S. under COVID-19, the bureau’s American Community Survey 1-year estimates for 2021 showed that the share of unmarried couples living together rose, Americans became more wired and the percentage of people who identify as multiracial grew significantly. And in changes that seemed to directly reflect how the pandemic upended people’s choices, fewer people moved, preschool enrollment dropped and commuters using public transportation was cut in half.
The data release offers the first reliable glimpse of life in the U.S. during the COVID-19 era, as the 1-year estimates from the 2020 survey were deemed unusable because of problems getting people to answer during the early months of the pandemic. That left a one-year data gap during a time when the pandemic forced major changes in the way people live their lives.
The survey typically relies on responses from 3.5 million households to provide 11 billion estimates each year about commuting times, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service and employment. The estimates help inform how to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending.
Response rates significantly improved from 2020 to 2021, “so we are confident about the data for this year,” said Mark Asiala, the survey’s chief of statistical design.
While the percentage of married-couple households stayed stable over the two years at around 47%, the percent of households with unwed couples cohabiting rose to 7.2% in 2021 from 6.6% in 2019. Contrary to pop culture images of multigenerational family members moving in together during the pandemic, the average household size actually contracted from 2.6 to 2.5 people.
People also stayed put. More than 87% of those surveyed were living in their same house a year ago in 2021, compared to 86% in 2019. America became more wired as people became more reliant on remote learning and working from home. Households with a computer rose, from 92.9% in 2019 to 95% in 2021, and internet subscription services grew from 86% to 90% of households.
The jump in people who identify as multiracial — from 3.4% in 2019 to 12.6% in 2021 — and a decline in people identifying as white alone — from 72% to 61.2% — coincided with Census Bureau changes in coding race and Hispanic origin responses. Those adjustments were intended to capture more detailed write-in answers from participants. The period between surveys also overlapped with social justice protests following the killing of George Floyd, who was Black, by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020 as well as attacks against Asian Americans. Experts say this likely lead some multiracial people who previously might have identified as a single race to instead embrace all of their background.
“The pattern is strong evidence of shifting self-identity. This is not new,” said Paul Ong, a professor emeritus of urban planning and Asian American Studies at UCLA. “Other research has shown that racial or ethnic identity can change even over a short time period. For many, it is contextual and situational. This is particularly true for individuals with multiracial background.”
The estimates show the pandemic-related impact of closed theaters, shuttered theme parks and restaurants with limited seating on workers in arts, entertainment and accommodation businesses. Their numbers declined from 9.7% to 8.2% of the workforce, while other industries stayed comparatively stable. Those who were self-employed inched up to 6.1% from 5.8%.
Housing demand grew over the two years, as the percent of vacant homes dropped from 12.1% to 10.3%. The median value of homes rose from $240,500 to $281,400. The percent of people whose gross rent exceeded more than 30% of their income went from 48.5% to 51%. Historically, renters are considered rent-burdened if they pay more than that.
“Lack of housing that folks can afford relative to the wages they are paid is a continually growing crisis,” said Allison Plyer, chief demographer at The Data Center in New Orleans.
Commutes to work dropped from 27.6 minutes to 25.6 minutes, as the percent of people working from home during a period of return-to-office starts and stops went from 5.7% in 2019 to almost 18% in 2021. Almost half of workers in the District of Columbia worked from home, the highest rate in the nation, while Mississippi had the lowest rate at 6.3% Over the two years, the percent of workers nationwide using public transportation to get to work went from 5% to 2.5%, as fears rose of catching the virus on buses and subways.
“Work and commuting are central to American life, so the widespread adoption of working from home is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Michael Burrows, a Census Bureau statistician. “With the number of people who primarily work from home tripling over just a two-year period, the pandemic has very strongly impacted the commuting landscape in the United States.”
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Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP | 2022-09-15T14:58:06+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/ap-unwed-couples-grew-us-was-more-wired-in-covids-1st-years/ |
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There’s probably someone in your life who could use a little extra help around the house. Maybe that someone is you! If you wish you could give (or receive) some housekeeping assistance as a gift, you might be in luck. A top brand of self-cleaning robot vacuums and mops is lowering prices for the holiday season.
As part of Amazon Black Friday 2022, Yeedi is slashing prices by as much as $240 per item. Better still, prices on the following Yeedi robot vacuums and mops are part of the Amazon early-access sales, so you don’t even have to wait until after Thanksgiving to save. To sweeten the deal even more, Yeedi is giving extra savings to Don’t Waste Your Money readers with special promo codes. The combination can bring your price down by as much as $264.
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Amazon customers who’ve reviewed this robot vacuum-mop combo say it’s great for homes with pets.
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Its unique oscillating mopping system scrubs stubborn stains off hard floors. In addition, it can identify the floor type and choose the proper cleaning method.
This high-tech robot vac has more than 750 ratings and 4.3 stars at Amazon. Customers who’ve written reviews say it has an impressive battery life and is very user-friendly.
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This upgraded version of the Yeedi Vac has brilliant power with 3000Pa. suction, plus a side brush and a floating rolling brush to loosen, sweep, and suck up dirt from all surfaces and corners. It’s perfect for vacuuming both carpet and hard floors.
The Yeedi Vac has more than 3,400 ratings with 4.2 stars. Customers who reviewed the robot vacuum say it does a great job at a reasonable price.
“We have two cats and just couldn’t keep up,” wrote a reviewer who also shared the photo below. “Love the boundary feature and the scheduling. I hope to upgrade by adding the mop in the future. I would highly recommend at the price point.”
Usually $299.99, as an Amazon Black Friday deal in 2022, you can save $120 when you check the coupon box. Then, use the coupon code DWYM20VAC at checkout and get the Yeedi Vac Robot Vacuum for $158.
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This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2022-11-18T21:08:04+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/save-more-yeedi-robot-vacuums-mops-promo-codes |
(NewsNation) — The manhunt to find Ayman al-Zawahiri stretched back more than 21 years and ended this weekend after a drone strike killed the top Al-Qaeda leader at a safe house in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Al-Zawahiri was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as the head of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda following his death at the hands of U.S. forces in 2011.
Al-Zawahiri had been in hiding for years and the operation to locate and kill him was the result of “careful patient and persistent” work, a senior administration official told reporters.
The reconnaissance operation was in the works for months but escalated at the start of this year after officials gathered critical information about the safehouse at which al-Zawahiri was staying in Kabul. Intelligence began to go up the chain of command in April and President Joe Biden was briefed periodically during May and June, officials said. Information detailing al-Zawahiri’s routine and living conditions were shared as well as detailed plans of the building he was staying in.
A formal, detailed briefing was given on July 1, and the president and the vice president were “deeply engaged” and asked questions about minimizing risks to civilians, according to officials. Biden gave final approval for the strike last Thursday.
The United States does not have any formal diplomatic relations with Afghanistan. The drone strike and the potential repercussions are complicated by the Doha Agreement, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Afghanistan violated, NewsNation’s Tom Dempsey explained.
“It was an exchange between the U.S. and Afghanistan where the U.S. would withdraw its forces, as long as Afghanistan would not be a safe harbor for Al-Qaeda in the country. So Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Taliban violated that agreement because intelligence leaders showed that the Taliban knew that I was worried he was staying in the country of Afghanistan, and the U.S. gave no warning of this attack to the Taliban,” Dempsey said on “Morning in America.” “So again, relations were strained even before all this, but this strike barely, probably going to make things even more strained between the two countries mentioned.”
“In the face of the Taliban’s unwillingness or inability to abide by their commitments, we will continue to support the Afghan people with robust humanitarian assistance and to advocate for the protection of their human rights, especially of women and girls,” Blinken said in a statement.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-08-02T17:51:45+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/how-did-the-us-kill-top-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri/ |
Vote: The Oklahoman's high school athletes of the week poll for March 27-April 2
Voting is open for the next oklahoman.com high school athlete of the week ballot for March 27-April 2.
The deadline is noon Friday. Athlete of the week voting occurs each week during all high school sports seasons and recognizes athletes across all sports. This ballot includes baseball, golf, slowpitch softball, soccer, tennis and track and field.
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Here are the nominees for March 27-April 2:
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Baseball
Kylen Dodge, So., Mustang: Dodge went out and threw a no-hitter on Saturday against Ponca City. He struck out seven batters and walked just two en route to the 8-0 win. Mustang won four of its five games on the week. The Broncos are 10-6 on the season.
Dax Noles, Jr., Norman: In five games and 16 at-bats, Noles tallied 10 hits, two home runs, a triple and three doubles for a .625 batting average. He also recorded four RBIs. Norman is 11-7 on the season.
JayShaun Sykes, Moore: Last Week Sykes hit a grand slam against Yukon and put together one of the best weeks throughout baseball. Sykes batted 5-for-10, (.500) with one home run, double, four RBIs and two stolen bases. Moore won three of its four games of the week and has a 9-7 record on the season.
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Boys golf
Grant Gudgel, Jr., Stillwater: The reigning Class 6A individual champion carded a 5-over-par 149 through two rounds, placing second at the Broken Arrow Invitational as Stillwater won the tournament.
Ben Lathrop, Fr., Heritage Hall: The freshman recorded a 1-under 71 for second place at the Jenks Tournament.
Christian Johnson, Sr., Christian Heritage: Johnson placed second in two tournaments last week. He had a 4-under 68 at Lake Hefner and a 1-over 72 at Fountainhead Creek Golf Club.
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Girls golf
Lucy Darr, Jr., Stillwater: Darr finished second at the Class 6A State Preview with a 2-over 74. She had another individual runner-up finish Saturday with a 72 at Stillwater Country Club.
Juliana Hong, Fr., Norman North: The freshman placed third at the Class 6A State Preview with a 4-over-76. Then she finished third at the Choctaw Invitational with another 76.
Allie Justiz, Jr., Bishop McGuinness: Justiz carded a 75 to place second at the Choctaw Invitational, helping her team win the tournament.
More:Meet The Oklahoman's 2022-23 All-State boys basketball Player of the Year candidates
Slowpitch softball
Caty Baack, Sr., North Rock Creek: Baack batted .559 (19-of-34) with nine home runs and 15 RBIs and three doubles in NRC’s stretch. The Cougars are 12-1 on the season.
Paisley Dyer, So., Crescent: Dyer posted a .636 batting average with one home run, double and four RBIs in three games last week. Crescent is 13-5 on the season.
Katie Overstreet, So., Tecumseh: She batted .667 last week with three home runs and 27 RBIs in Tecumseh’s six of seven wins. The Savages have a 13-4 record this season.
More:Meet The Oklahoman's 2022-23 All-State boys basketball Player of the Year candidates
Boys soccer
Nehemias Barrientos, Sr., Putnam West: Barrientos added a goal in each of Putnam West’s shutout wins last week. The Patriots defeated Lawton Eisenhower, 4-0, and rolled past Lawton, 10-0.
Fidencio Torres, Sr., Northwest Classen: Torres provided two goals in Northwest Classen’s shutout of Norman last week. He also added two goals and two assists during a tournament in Foley, Alabama.
Beckham Williams, Fr., Bethany: Williams played through the entire match as Bethany slipped past Harrah, 1-0, in overtime. The midfielder drew and took the penalty kick to win.
More:Meet The Oklahoman's 2022-23 All-State girls basketball Player of the Year candidates
Girls soccer
Lily Cunningham, Sr., Deer Creek: The senior forward had two goals in Deer Creek’s 4-3 victory against Yukon.
Hailey Nesselrode, Jr., Oklahoma Christian School: Nesslerode has helped the Saints compile a 6-0 record, most recently adding three goals against Douglass. She has 11 goals this season.
Kaylyn Simmons, Sr., Norman: Simmons led the Tigers with seven goals and four assists as they went undefeated over the past week.
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Boys tennis
Gray Ferguson, Jr., Heritage Hall: Ferguson and his playing partner, Emerson Ritenour, made it to Heritage Hall’s Tournament of Champions finals last week in No. 1 doubles. Ferguson and Ritenour were set to face Jenks in the championship, but the tournament didn’t finish.
Zander Nelson, Jr., Crossings Christian: He won the No. 2 singles title at the Boys Crossings Gauntlet on Tuesday.
Cristian Salas, So., Mustang: He placed third in No. 1 doubles at the Edmond Memorial tournament last week.
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Girls tennis
Lydia Blackwell, Yukon: She placed third in No. 1 singles at the Edmond Memorial tournament.
Jasmine Crain, So., Heritage Hall: Crain and her playing partner, Tokara Henderson, won the No. 1 doubles title at the Edmond Memorial tournament. The duo handed Deer Creek’s Sindhya Atturu and Paige Ludlam their first loss of the season in the finals.
Ava Goodell, Jr., Edmond Memorial: She claimed the No. 1 singles title at the Edmond Memorial tournament, beating Tulsa Union’s Jenna Mitsdarfer in the finals.
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Boys track
Camden Pratcher, Jr., Norman North: A stellar long jumper, he won the event at Edmond North’s meet Thursday with a leap of 23 feet, 6 inches.
Trenton Weber, Jr., Community Christian: He was dominant at the Alex meet Friday, winning the 800-meter run (2 minutes, 10.64 seconds), 1,600 (4:52.74) and 3,200 (10:18.89).
Matt Werschem, Sr., Yukon: He won the shot put at the Edmond North meet with a toss of 50-2.
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Girls track
Daigan Miller, So., Minco: She showcased her prowess in the distance races as she won the 1,600 (6:07.70) and 3,200 (12:56.06) at the Alex meet. The Minco girls placed first in the team standings.
Emmanuella Njenje, Sr., Edmond Santa Fe: She had a stellar performance in the 400 at Edmond North’s meet, winning with a time of 55.76. She also helped Edmond Santa Fe win the 4x200 (1:40.77) and distance medley relay (12:41.63) as the Wolves placed first in the team standings.
Rielyn Scheffe, So., Washington: She won the 100 hurdles (17.66) and 300 hurdles (50.75) at Marietta’s invitational Friday.
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Last week’s results
Here are The Oklahoman’s Fans Choice Athletes of the Week for March 20-27:
Baseball: Josh Errico, Edmond Memorial
Boys golf: Luca Dunnington, Classen SAS
Girls golf: Rylan Ashley, Carl Albert
Boys soccer: Kabl Kahkesh, Edmond Memorial
Girls soccer: Rylee McLanahan, Edmond North
Slowpitch softball: Ava Hebensperger, Guthrie
Boys tennis: Luke Bishop, Edmond Memorial
Girls tennis: Lauren Krise, Edmond Memorial
Boys track: Heston Thompson, Stillwater
Girls track: Kassidi Watkins, Mustang
Want to nominate someone for athlete of the week? Email their name, year, sport and stats to hhart@oklahoman.com, jjackson@oklahoman.com and nsardis@oklahoman.com before 9 a.m. Monday each week with info from the previous week. | 2023-04-03T23:43:20+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/04/03/vote-oklahoma-high-school-athletes-of-the-week-for-march-27-april-2/70076988007/ |
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By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to announce Wednesday that many Americans can have up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiven. Details of the plan are still being finalized, but here’s what we know so far and what it means for people with outstanding student loans:
WILL BIDEN FORGIVE STUDENT LOANS?
Three people familiar with the plan say it will forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for anyone who makes less than $125,000 a year. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the plan before it is announced. Some categories of borrowers could be eligible for more relief, but that was still being discussed.
WILL THE STUDENT LOAN PAYMENT FREEZE BE EXTENDED?
Those same people say the pause on student loan payments will be extended until January. The freeze started in 2020 as a way to help people struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic and it’s been extended several times since. It’s currently set to expire on Aug. 31.
Interest rates will remain at 0% until repayments start. Under an earlier extension announced in April, people who were behind on payments before the pandemic will automatically be put in good standing.
WHO WILL QUALIFY FOR STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS?
Details are yet to be announced, but only people making less than $125,000 a year are expected to qualify. People who borrowed through most federal student loan programs are likely to be eligible, while those who have private loans issued by banks or schools probably won’t be.
HOW DO I APPLY FOR STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS?
Details of that have not yet been announced, but more information will likely be available later Wednesday.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL THIS HELP?
About 43 million Americans have federal student debt, and a third of those owe less than $10,000. Half owe less than $20,000. The total amount of federal student debt is more than $1.6 trillion. Nearly one third of all American students take out loans to pay for college, with the average individual student debt reaching a record high of $37,014 in 2021.
WHAT IF I’VE ALREADY PAID OFF MY STUDENT LOANS — WILL I SEE RELIEF?
The debt forgiveness is expected to apply only to those currently holding student debt.
WILL STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS DEFINITELY HAPPEN?
Critics believe the White House will face lawsuits over the plan, because Congress has never given the president the explicit authority to cancel debt. We don’t know yet how that might impact the timetable for student loan forgiveness.
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Seung Min Kim, Michael Balsamo, Chris Megerian and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.
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HENDERSON, Nev., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organizations, today announced Roy W. Olivier, President & Chief Executive Officer & Bill Nurthen, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the virtual East Coast IDEAS Investor Conference on June 22, 2022. The Company's presentation is scheduled to be available at 6:00 am ET that day and the webcast can be accessed through the main conference website: www.IDEASconferences.com.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Rest assured, kids. A bomb cyclone is no match for the big man in red.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, is the U.S. military agency responsible for monitoring and defending the skies above North America.
The agency also runs the NORAD Tracks Santa service, which allows people to follow his Christmas journey through its noradsanta.org website, social media channels and mobile app.
The agency this year plans to have about 1,500 volunteers working on Christmas Eve to field phone calls from children who want to know Santa’s location and delivery schedule. The frightful weather isn’t expected to affect Santa’s schedule.
“I think Santa will be right at home with the Arctic weather that’s hitting into the lower 48,” says Lt. General David Nahom, a NORAD official based in Anchorage, Alaska.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS
— Ho, ho, snow: NORAD’s Santa tracker ready to roll despite winter storm
— Falling iguana alert! Even sunny Florida could see freezing temps this weekend
— Huge storm intensifies into a “ bomb cyclone ”
— As temperatures plummet, migrants wait along the U.S.-Mexico border for a possible change to asylum rules
— Air Force tops Baylor in frigid Armed Forces Bowl
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — This week’s massive storm with its blizzard conditions and Arctic air may set some temperature and wind gust records, but it isn’t unprecedented.
That’s according to Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations for the Weather Prediction Center at the National Weather Service. But the storm hitting just before the Christmas holiday when so many Americans are traveling, however, will make it especially disruptive.
“The impacts are perhaps far greater than they might be in the middle of winter during a typical weekend without a holiday,” said Carbin. “It is a notable storm.”
The initial shock of cold temperatures is like the fatal February 2021 winter storm where frigid air descended into Texas. But the cold during that storm lingered, knocking out power for millions in Texas. Many died from hypothermia. This storm isn’t expected to last as long.
“Give it a day or two” and temperatures will start to rebound, Carbin said.
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WATERLOO, Iowa — Even though the sporting events were canceled, eastern Iowa sports broadcaster Mark Woodley didn’t get the day off.
“I normally do sports,” Woodley says on-air for Waterloo TV station KWWL. “Everything is canceled here for the next couple of days so what better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up and go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same?”
By midday Friday, a compilation of his TV stand-ups had been viewed nearly 5 million times on Twitter.
He later says to a news anchor: “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. The good news is that I can still feel my face right now. The bad news is, I kind of wish I couldn’t.”
It may be awhile before Woodley returns to sports. Waterloo, which is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northeast of Des Moines, remains under a blizzard warning until 6 a.m. Saturday.
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Power outages are piling up across the United States from a winter storm that is bringing heavy snow and powerful winds to much of the country.
More than 1.4 million homes and businesses were without electricity Friday morning. That’s according to the website PowerOutage.us, which tracks utility reports.
Most of the outages are in the Eastern U.S., where gusty winds have knocked down trees and power lines.
In Vermont, residents were told to plan for a “multi-day event” for full power restoration and cleanup.
“I’m hearing from crews who are seeing grown trees ripped out by the roots,” Mari McClure, president of Green Mountain Power, the state’s largest utility, said at a news conference.
In Maine, gusts approaching 70 mph (113 kph) were reported along the coast Friday morning. Atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, the tallest peak in the Northeast, the wind topped 130 mph (210 kph).
Hundreds of utility and tree crews were deployed in New England, but the high winds hampered them. The limit for using bucket trucks is typically 25 mph (40 kph) to 35 mph (56 kph), a utility official said.
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SEATTLE – All bus service was suspended in the greater Seattle area Friday morning due to an ice storm that made travel treacherous and Sea-Tac International Airport closed two out of three runways.
King County Metro said buses were unable to leave bases due to “deteriorating and unsafe road conditions.” The agency said it hoped it would be able to run buses later Friday. In Pierce, Kitsap and Snohomish counties, authorities also halted bus service.
The Pacific Northwest has shivered under extreme cold for several days. Forecasters said the freezing rain, which is affecting western Washington and Oregon, is happening as temperatures start to rise and a storm moves through. The warm up will be quick, with forecasters saying temperatures could reach the 50s in Seattle by Christmas.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The huge winter storm pummeling parts of the United States and Canada has intensified into a bomb cyclone. That’s according to the National Weather Service, which says the atmospheric pressure of the storm has dropped rapidly enough over the past 24 hours to classify the system that way.
John Moore, a spokesman and meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the central pressure of the system has fallen rapidly and is expected to continue dropping over the next few hours.
Blizzard warnings are in effect in the Great Lakes area, where snowfall is expected to combine with powerful winds to create whiteout conditions.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Extreme cold, powerful wind and blowing snow are wreaking havoc on holiday travelers.
The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center calls it a “historic winter storm.” If you’re in the U.S., there’s a good chance winter weather of some sort is in your forecast. The weather service says its map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever.”
By the numbers:
— 181 million people are under wind chill warnings or advisories.
— More than 11 million people are under blizzard warnings.
— 58 million people face winter storm warnings.
— And more than 500,000 people are under ice storm warnings.
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NEW YORK — What is a “bomb cyclone” anyway?
The name comes from the meteorological term bombogenesis, which occurs when a fast-developing storm rapidly intensifies, causing atmospheric pressure to quickly drop in a 24-hour period. Bombogenesis creates a bomb cyclone.
It all started farther north, as frigid air collected over the snow-covered ground in the Arctic, said Ryan Maue, a private meteorologist in the Atlanta area.
Then the jet stream — wobbling air currents in the middle and upper parts of the atmosphere — began pushing this cold pool down into the U.S.
As this arctic air is pushed into the warmer, moister air ahead of it, the system can quickly develop into serious weather, including a bomb cyclone.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A group of Venezuelan migrants sought refuge from the cold under blankets beside a bonfire in a dirt alleyway beside a crumbling cinderblock wall in this city across the border from El Paso.
“We’re from the coast (of Venezuela) with lot of sun and the cold affects us,” said 22-year-old Rafael Gonzalez and a native of La Guaira on the Caribbean coast. “The shelter here is very full. … And that means it’s our turn to be here, having a little bonfire.”
He and others said they are eager to learn whether the U.S. will lift restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the border.
Nearby, migrants from Venezuela and Central America sought refuge from the cold in a three-room shelter without beds, lying shoulder-to-shoulder among blankets on a concrete floor.
The shelter has been forged gradually with repairs to an abandoned building in recent weeks. The project is the work of pastor Elias Rodriguez of the Casa Nueva Voz ministry, who grew concerned about the emergence of a small “tent city” along the Rio Grande without even a water faucet.
“Outside there are people making fires, people waiting by the door because we only have 135 spaces,” Rodriguez said.
“It’s been so cold that people, when I step outside, they say, ‘Please let me in even if there’s standing room only, I don’t even have to find a place on the floor to sleep as long as you just allow me to come in.’”
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FORT WORTH, Texas — “Cold might be putting it mildly,” Air Force coach Troy Calhoun said after the Falcons beat Baylor 30-15 on Thursday night.
“I don’t think I’ve experienced anything like that,” he said. “When it’s not warm, it’s not easy. It never is at the United States Air Force Academy. But these guys, just the heart, the guts and the right, extraordinary young people. I’m glad they’re fighting for our country.”
Baylor officials announced it was the coldest kickoff temperature in the history of the program based about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Dallas-Fort Worth in Waco.
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One week before May 1 — National College Decision Day — the New York Times published a story about rejection parties.
The story opens with Los Angeles high school counselor Lynda McGee firing up her paper shredder, which she brings to said parties (alongside ice cream sundaes) so students can ceremoniously lay waste to their various college thanks-but-no-thanks notes.
“You have to print it out,” McGee told reporter Danielle Braff, “because there’s no satisfaction with deleting an email.”
At a public high school in New York, Advanced Placement literature teacher Anna Swann-Pye hosts a rejection hall of fame.
“As soon as a student pops up a rejection letter on the wall, they’re greeted with a round of applause and an opportunity to dip into the rejection grab bag, which is filled with ring pops, candy bracelets and Rubik’s Cubes,” Braff reports. “Students also supplement the wall with their own messages, like ‘You’re too sexy for Vassar’ or ‘You’ve been rejected, you’re too smart. Love, NYU.’”
I love every single thing about this. Except one thing.
That it’s necessary.
That so many high school students have so completely absorbed the cultural messaging in which they’re swimming. That a college rejection feels personal and permanently life-altering.
That we’ve managed to make a monumentally exciting beginning — Here comes the next thing! The friends you’ll meet! The ideas you’ll encounter! The mistakes you’ll make! The adventures you’ll go on! — feel, instead, like an ending. The final word on what they have or haven’t accomplished in their one precious life. By age 18.
“Kids feel like, ‘Whatever happens in the next few months determines what happens the rest of my life,’” said clinical psychologist John Duffy, my friend and “On Purpose” podcast partner.
I called him after I read the rejection party story to get some advice. He said one of his clients walked down his office hall that day, yelling, “I’m too sexy for Michigan!”
“What the rejection party does is at least bring a modicum of levity to what we’re taking way, way too seriously, way, way too early in kids’ lives,” he said. “We adults bring — sometimes unwittingly — a gravity to this decision, a weight to it, that is way more than our kids are developmentally prepared to bear.”
He said his teenage clients come to him knowing their chances of getting into a specific school with the precision of an NFL scout on Draft Day. And their self-worth, quite often, feels connected to those chances.
I asked him how parents can diffuse — or at least avoid adding to — the pressure.
“When my clients are distraught about this, I ask them to take a step back and use a little longer lens,” he said. “‘Let’s look 10 years in the future. Do you think you’re going to be as concerned with what’s framed on the wall in 10 years? How high it was ranked in U.S. News?’
“Then we can shift the discussion to how they want this process to feel. Do you want college to be fun? Do you want it to be challenging? Maybe it doesn’t have to be Princeton, Georgetown, your parent’s alma mater. Maybe it can just be a place that’s enjoyable and gives you an education.”
I’m nodding my head as he talks … and picturing every teenager I know rolling their eyes. It’s not that simple, they’d say.
And it’s not. But we can do our best to nudge them a little closer to that perspective.
Duffy encourages parents to ask their kids what they want their futures to look like, and not necessarily around a career.
“If you ask a kid, ‘What would your perfect day look like in 10 years,’ sometimes work is the last thing they mention,” he said. “They’ll mention going to the gym, having a dog, seeing friends. There are so many other things they’re interested in and looking forward to, and it gives us, and them, a broader perspective of how they want their lives to look. It takes some pressure off this one thing, this one letter.”
And don’t underestimate the power, he said, of reminding them that your love and awe and affection are in no way tied to this process.
“Parents can forget to say, early and often, ‘I love you no matter where you go. I will love you even if you don’t go,’” Duffy said. “‘We’re good no matter what. My love isn’t contingent on where you go. Whatever the right story is for you is what I want to support.’”
And leave room for error. Or changes of heart. Or serendipity.
“I would love to hear parents say, ‘If you try to do your best and stay engaged in a couple things you really like, the right thing is going to happen,’” he said. “‘Is it going to happen exactly as we picture? I kind of hope not. I kind of hope we run into some bumps. You can handle bumps.’”
Brilliant.
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HERNING, Denmark (AP) — The United States routed Japan 10-0 in the opening game of the women’s hockey world championship on Thursday and defending champion Canada started the tournament with a 4-1 victory over Finland.
The Americans had nine different scorers against Japan, with Alex Carpenter the only player to net twice. Taylor Heise went scoreless but equaled a tournament record with five assists for the U.S., which led 9-0 after two periods and outshot Japan 62-6.
Olympic and world champion Canada faced tougher resistance from Finland, the bronze medalist at the Beijing Games in February.
Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and assist for Canada in the first period but Finland stayed within one goal until Meaghan Mikkelson made it 3-1 with seven minutes left of the second. Blayre Turnbull added the fourth into an empty net.
Finland missed a penalty at the end of the first period when Kiira Yrjanen’s shot was saved by Ann-Renée Desbiens.
Finland captain Jenni Hiirikoski set a tournament record by playing in her 14th world championship.
In Group B, Sweden beat host Denmark 5-2 behind a hat trick from Hanna Olsson and Hungary upset Germany 4-2.
The United States next plays Finland on Saturday, when Canada faces Switzerland. The two North American rivals are both in Group A and play each other in the last preliminary round on Tuesday.
Canada beat the U.S. in the final of both last year’s worlds and the Olympics.
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More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-25T22:43:50+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-us-canada-open-womens-hockey-worlds-with-wins/ |
DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs
Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people
This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to show up, dive in, and find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others.
The collaborative event, which AI Village organizers describe as "the largest red teaming exercise ever for any group of AI models," will host "thousands" of people, including "hundreds of students from overlooked institutions and communities," all of whom will be tasked with finding flaws in LLMs that power today's chat bots and generative AI.
Think: traditional bugs in code, but also problems more specific to machine learning, such as bias, hallucinations, and jailbreaks — all of which ethical and security professionals are now having to grapple with as these technologies scale.
DEF CON is set to run from August 10 to 13 this year in Las Vegas, USA.
The diverse issues with these models will not be resolved until more people know how to red team and assess them
"Traditionally, companies have solved this problem with specialized red teams. However this work has largely happened in private," said Sven Cattell, the founder of AI Village, in a statement. "The diverse issues with these models will not be resolved until more people know how to red team and assess them."
The data scientist wants to see bug bounties and live hacking events modified in general to fit in ML model-based systems. "These fill two needs with one deed, addressing the harms and growing the community of researchers that know how to help," Cattell said.
- How to tell an AI bot wrote that scammy-looking tax email: No spelling mistakes
- Is your AI hallucinating? Might be time to call in the red team
- Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
- Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to
For those participating in the red teaming this summer, the AI Village will provide laptops and timed access to LLMs from various vendors. Currently this includes models from Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Stability. The village people's announcement also mentions this is "with participation from Microsoft," so perhaps hackers will get a go at Bing. We're asked for clarification about this.
Red teams will also have access to an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI.
There will be a capture-the-flag-style point system to promote the testing of "a wide range of harms," according to the AI Village. Whoever gets the most points wins a high-end Nvidia GPU.
The event is also supported by the White House Office of Science, Technology, and Policy; America's National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate; and the Congressional AI Caucus.
Additionally, the announcement comes as US Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior Biden administration officials met the bosses of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google to discuss the risks AI poses to individuals and national security.
And separately, Rumman Chowdhury, who co-founded a group of experts calling themselves the Bias Buccaneers who champion algorithm transparency, discussed the need for AI red teams at last month's RSA Conference.
The AI Village hosted its first machine-learning public bias bounty at DEF CON two years ago. ® | 2023-05-07T17:55:28+00:00 | theregister.com | https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/06/ai_hacking_defcon/ |
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines said Thursday that it earned $483 million in the third quarter, as revenue during a hectic summer travel season topped pre-pandemic levels.
Even with slightly less passenger-carrying capacity than before the pandemic, high fares and mostly full planes helped American overcome higher jet fuel prices.
CEO Robert Isom said demand for travel remains strong, and American forecast that fourth-quarter earnings will top Wall Street expectations and revenue will again exceed the same quarter of 2019.
American's report repeated many of the same upbeat themes sounded in the last few days by United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, as U.S. air travel roared back from pandemic lows in early 2020. Last Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 2.5 million travelers on a single day, the busiest day at the nation’s airports since February 2020.
Travel is booming despite a 43% leap in airfares in the past year, according to government figures.
American said its adjusted profit, which excludes certain items, was 69 cents per share, compared with a forecast of 54 cents per share by analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Revenue was a quarterly record of $13.46 billion, slightly higher than the $13.36 billion predicted by analysts.
American, which is based in Fort Worth, Texas, predicted fourth-quarter profit will be between 50 cents and 70 cents per share, which would exceed the analysts' forecast of 19 cents per share.
On Tuesday, United reported a third-quarter profit of $942 million, and last week Delta Air Lines posted earnings of $695 million for the period. Both airlines gave optimistic forecasts for the upcoming holiday season and said they see no indication that consumer concerns about inflation and the economy are hurting ticket sales. | 2022-10-20T12:12:34+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/American-Airlines-posts-483-million-profit-for-17521746.php |
The football fate of Tua Tagovailoa always came with a second, shadow opponent beyond the front-and-center thinking and throwing necessary for him to become the Miami Dolphins’ franchise quarterback.
Or maybe health always was Tagovailoa’s first opponent.
Maybe him being drafted coming off of major hip surgery was a message. Maybe the video of him being knocked to the ground Sunday against the Green Bay Packers and slamming the back of his head on the turf either shows the any-given-Sunday danger to all NFL quarterbacks or the added layer of danger to a smaller, slower quarterback like Tagovailoa.
This is the third time Tagovailoa’s head has bounced off the ground this season, his second trip to concussion protocol and the prime thought as he’s pulled away from the season is for godspeed and good health.
Let’s start there. The concussion dangers are known and obvious in this era and the dangers go far beyond a Sunday scoreboard as Tagovailoa, doctors and the Dolphins well know. They’ll decide what this means for his future, both this season and beyond. There’s no need to debate that now.
But it’s not just Tagovailoa who has some thinking to do. The Dolphins must too. That starts in the short-term and the obvious decision for coach Mike McDaniel to start veteran Teddy Bridgewater on Sunday in New England. McDaniel said on Monday that Bridgewater would get most of the practice plays this week, but stopped short of officially saying he would start against the Patriots.
With the playoffs on the line, with the game on the road, Bridgewater is such the obvious pick it wouldn’t be worth any debate if McDaniel hadn’t picked rookie Skylar Thompson earlier this season. That was when Bridgewater couldn’t practice, though, as he was in concussion protocol the same time as Tagovailoa.
There’s a long-term question for the Dolphins here, too, and you might pass the aspirin all around while asking this question with no real answer: Can you trust Tagovailoa’s health to become the player this team needs? Even before trusting he’s that player?
It was a common NFL play on Sunday that likely did in Tagovailoa, so common no one at the game noticed it. The video shows him slamming to the ground while passing near the end of the first half, his head bouncing off the turf, and no one paying any attention as he moved on to the next play.
Until Monday afternoon, that is.
“As much as I know, he’s displayed [concussion] symptoms and they enacted the protocol, which is all that needs to happen before you have to, by the player’s health, go through that whole process as they should,” McDaniel said. “So it’s a little early. Like I said, I only found out a couple hours ago.”
If there’s no clarity of where this goes, there’s a clear before-and-after look at Tagovailoa’s play on Sunday that could explain his foggy head.
First half: Nine completions in 12 attempts for 229 yards, a touchdown and a 144.4 passer rating.
Second half: Seven of 13 passes completed for 81 yards, three interceptions and a 33.3 rating.
Sunday’s problem could have been that simple for Tagovailoa — except it’s not simple. Not at all. Not when you consider how recovering from a concussion, if it’s diagnosed that, is trickier moving forward than recovering from a knee injury or shoulder problem. And a second concussion? Or more?
Where this leaves the Dolphins (8-7) is anyone’s guess. They have no first-round pick to take another quarterback in next year’s NFL draft. They have no money to go out and buy a starting one for next season. Bridgewater is as solid a backup plan as you can have, but that doesn’t answer the big question.
You know, the one about finding a franchise quarterback?
In November, Tagovailoa made progressive strides in five consecutive wins to be considered “The Man”. In December, he regressed in the four consecutive losses to the point all that feelgood was lost. And now he’s hurt.
Now what?
Now the Dolphins go to New England (7-8) try to win with Bridgewater. That’s not a bad proposition. The tougher challenge will be moving on with Tagovailoa, knowing he’s just another common NFL hit away from suffering another head injury.
Look, it happens. Dan Marino was concussed in the Dolphins’ playoff game at Seattle in 1999 to the point he doesn’t remember leading the winning drive. Troy Aikman played a near-perfect game for Dallas in the 1994 NFC Championship game despite suffering a concussion to the point he doesn’t remember the game.
That’s the NFL. Or it can be. It’s time to worry about Tagovailoa’s health. It’s time to wonder, too, about the Dolphins’ franchise quarterback. How the two stay together, or come together, or just work together, is the worry for everyone moving ahead.
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CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — Bakery owner Sean Young was thrilled when high school art students covered the big blank wall over his doorway last spring with a painting of the sun shining over a mountain range made of sprinkle-covered chocolate and strawberry donuts, a blueberry muffin, a cinnamon roll and other pastries.
The display got rave reviews, and Young looked forward to collaborating with the school on more mural projects at his roadside bakery in Conway, New Hampshire.
Then the town zoning board got involved, deciding that the pastry painting was not so much art as advertising, and so could not remain as is because of its size. Faced with modifying or removing the mural, or possibly dealing with fines and criminal charges, Young sued, saying the town is violating his freedom of speech rights.
The painting could stay right where it is if it showed actual mountains, instead of pastries suggesting mountains, or if the building wasn’t a bakery.
“They said it would be art elsewhere,” Young told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s just not art here.”
“The town should not have the right to police art,” he said.
The controversy has residents of this town of 10,000 grappling with big questions about creativity and liberty as it tries to preserve its rural character. Like other White Mountain communities that draw skiers, nature lovers and shoppers, Conway is under development pressure, making the sign dispute fraught with worries that any concession to commerce could change what they hold dear.
Many — including the zoning board members — applauded the students’ colorful work, but said rules must be followed, even if they’re old and outdated. At about 90 square feet (8.6 square meters), the mural is four times bigger than the sign code allows.
Following a longstanding democratic tradition of New England town meetings, residents deliberated how to define a sign before ultimately voting down changes last week. The local newspaper said the proposed wording wasn’t clear. Ultimately, a judge may have to resolve what remains an open debate in town.
“Those kids put their heart in it,” retiree Steve Downing said. He thinks the painting should stay.
“Everyone has to comply with the ordinance,” said Charlie Birch, a former U.S. Forest Service worker. “And even though it was done by the students, which was well done, and I give them a lot of credit for it … if you have the ordinance, ‘One for all,’ that’s where we are. You can’t really make any exceptions, otherwise everybody else will want the exception.”
Art teacher Olivia Benish, who worked with three students on the project, apologized to the board in September for not doing “due diligence” to make sure the mural would comply. She didn’t respond to requests for an interview. But she told the board members that there has to be a way to give students the opportunity to create positive public works of art “without upsetting the law and the powers that be,” according to the town minutes.
The lawsuit Young filed in January argues that the town is unconstitutionally discriminating against him. He asked a judge to prevent the town from enforcing its sign code.
And now other businesses have been drawn into the controversy.
Long before the pastry painting was installed, the town had allowed other murals at a local shopping center, but in December the town found that three of those artworks are, indeed, signs that violate size limits. They go before the zoning board on Wednesday.
Young, who is being represented by the Virginia-based Institute for Justice, asked for $1 in damages. Meanwhile, he’s selling T-shirts as a high school art department fundraiser, saying “This is Art” with the artwork on the front, and “This is a Sign” of a roadside “Leavitt’s Country Bakery” sign on the back.
“As Conway officials have confirmed, the town does not consider a painting to be a “sign” if it does not convey what town officials perceive to be a commercial message,” the lawsuit says. “But the town’s perception is that any mural depicting anything related to a business is a ‘sign.’ This is governmental discrimination based on the content of the speech” and the speaker’s identity, it said.
The lawsuit says the town’s sign definition is “incredibly broad,” with no mention of murals in the code: A sign in Conway is “any device, fixture, placard, structure or attachment thereto that uses color, form, graphic, illumination, symbol, or writing to advertise, announce the purpose of, or identify the purpose of any person or entity, or to communicate information of any kind to the public, whether commercial or noncommercial.”
Board member Luigi Bartolomeo said he thinks the pastry painting is art, not advertising. He read the definition out loud at the board’s meeting in August, and said he agrees with a local attorney who called it “unconstitutionally vague.”
“I think it’s a very badly written piece of code here,” said Bartolomeo, who recently retired. But Board Chairperson John Colbath said the board has to work with the ordinance, which was approved by voters, and that there is a process to change that.
“If they had done a seasonal mural on the wall — covered bridges and sunflowers and what have you — and it did not represent what your business is in, then it would be more likely to be a well-respected piece of art and not construed as a sign,” Colbath said at the August meeting.
He said to Young, “I understand the art thing — and you look and you see a mountain — but the general public sees donuts on the front of the bakery.”
“I think most of the people said it’s art,” Young responded.
In its denial of Young’s appeals, the board concluded that the bakery won’t be negatively affected without the display.
“This supposed distinction between murals and signs shouldn’t matter,” attorney Betsy Sanz of the Institute said in a news release. “After all, nothing in the First Amendment distinguishes between art and commercial signs — or commercial speech of any kind.”
The town and Young agreed in February to pause court proceedings — and any potential fines or charges — pending a vote on a revised definition that would allow the painting to stay. But it failed in last week’s elections, with 805 to 750 voting against it, according to the town clerk’s office. The judge now wants to hear from both sides by May 10.
“We’re ready to keep going,” Young said.
Town Manager John Eastman declined an interview, referring questions to town lawyer Jason Dennis, who said he would soon meet with town officials to discuss next steps.
The Conway Daily Sun offered its analysis in an editorial last week: “Voters smartly concluded that the proposed new definition of signs would only further complicate enforcement. That said, it is not a stretch to conjecture that most voters are fine with the murals at Leavitt’s Country Bakery and Settlers Green. We suggest the town figure out a way to back off enforcement until a clearer definition can be written, one that accommodates ‘art.'”
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McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. | 2023-04-18T13:51:39+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/pastry-artwork-pits-bakery-against-town-in-free-speech-suit/ |
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — Cochise County has more than 1,200 jobs that need to be filled.
Education, medical and information technology fields have the most openings, however, in recent months there has been an increase in available jobs in the food service and hospitality industries.
“Restaurants, that’s one of the toughest jobs out there," Business Services Representative for Arizona @ Work, Eric Grisham said. "I mean you’re dealing with people. And now a days people can be very unthankful (and) ungrateful. One wrong move you’re posted all over social media.”
Marcelo Carrillo Jr., owner of 143 Street Tacos in Sierra Vista, said he has been collecting applications for the last seven months because people aren't staying more than a few months.
“We’ve been seeing three months, four months and then then they leave," he said. "“Before the pandemic I used to blame cell phones. Out of 10 people maybe one was good.
"When the pandemic hit and we’re back to normal times out of 20 people maybe one.”
Job seekers are looking closely to pay, work environment and flexibility with schedules when they are hunting for jobs. Both Grisham and Carrillo said they have seen an increase in people wanting part-time hours, rather then full-time hours.
“There’s a giant gap in what the businesses need and the workforce that are there to fill those needs,” Grisham said.
One of the gaps, includes pay. With living costs increasing and minimum wage on the rise, Grisham says people have a higher expectation for pay—even in jobs that were once used to help gain experience.
“A lot of these restaurant jobs are stepping stones to build experience while getting money to grow,” he said.
On average it takes a person three to six months to find a job. Grisham recommends job seekers follow up with the businesses they apply to and ask for feedback if not given the job.
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Alexis Ramanjulu is a reporter in Cochise County for KGUN 9. She began her journalism career reporting for the Herald/Review in Sierra Vista, which she also calls home. Share your story ideas with Alexis by emailing alexis.ramanjulu@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook. | 2023-07-07T06:31:17+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/cochise-county/sierra-vista-restaurants-hospitality-businesses-struggling-to-hire-and-retain-employees |
EU formally approves embargo on Russian oil, other sanctions
The European Union on Friday formally approved an embargo on Russian oil and other sanctions targeting major banks and broadcasters over Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
EU headquarters says Russian crude oil will be phased out over six months, and other refined petroleum products over eight months.
It says that “a temporary exception is foreseen” for landlocked countries – like Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – that “suffer from a specific dependence on Russian supplies and have no viable alternative options.”
Bulgaria and Croatia will also get “temporary derogations” for certain kinds of oil. EU leaders say the move means that around 90% of Russia’s oil exports to Europe will be blocked by year’s end. The EU imports around 25% of its oil from Russia.
Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, plus Credit Bank of Moscow, Russian Agriculture Bank and the Belarusian Bank for Development and Reconstruction have also been blocked from using the SWIFT system for international bank transfers.
Broadcasters Rossiya RTR/RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24 / Russia 24 and TV Centre International have been hit over allegations that they are being used by Moscow “to manipulate information and promote disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine.” | 2022-06-03T15:17:15+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/eu-formally-approves-embargo-on-russian-oil/40186440 |
Restaurant Review: Las Bis
Vibey patio bar is a saucy complement to Luminaire
Reviewed by Evan Rodriguez, Fri., May 12, 2023
Las Bis, meaning "encore," has a very specific identity: A large, beautiful patio bar set eight floors above Congress Avenue, it's an upscale, vibey destination that's perfect for kicking off a night of theatre or just celebrating the end of the work week.
Las Bis offers seven craft cocktails, a half-dozen beers, and a variety of natural wines by the glass, a style for every mood and palate. For me the place screams cider, because both the light, snacky, fish- and mollusk-centric menu and that patio demand a crushable beverage. Fittingly, they serve Austin's very own Fairweather Cider Co.'s Smell the Van, a dry Spanish-style cider infused with gin botanicals. It always hits, especially as the sun sets while you're seated on a bespoke outdoor barstool, made of the same material as wine corks, looking west.
The warm marinated olives and goat cheese spread is substantial and satisfying, and great for sharing; the briny, spicy, citrusy olives were my favorite part. The crisp Sportsball Pilsner from local brewery Friends & Allies went well with the creamy goat cheese and subtly spicy olives.
The octopus salad was spot-on, with tender tendrils of mollusk resting atop velvety aioli with crisp fresh celery, Italian flat-leaf parsley, and good Spanish olive oil. It's a fairly conservative portion for the dough, but if you're coming to Las Bis and looking at the price tag, you shouldn't be in the dealership.
If you really want to ball out, there are market-priced caviar setups (potato chips, chives, capers, boiled egg, and crème fraîche), or you could go with one of the many assorted, brightly packaged tinned fish offerings on the shelves, including Fishwife smoked Atlantic salmon and José Gourmet Baltic sea sprats.
There don't seem to be waitstaff at Las Bis, which means you have to order at the bar. There's a lot going on there, so, just like at any other busy bar, sometimes you're going to have to wait for service. Plan your pace accordingly, relax, and enjoy the view.
Las Bis
712 Congress, 737/257-1234Mon.-Thu., 4pm-12mid (food stops at 10pm); Fri.-Sat., 11am-12mid; Sun., noon-12mid
lasbisbar.com | 2023-05-16T07:45:05+00:00 | austinchronicle.com | https://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2023-05-12/restaurant-review-las-bis/ |
Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley to be sentenced
ATLANTA (AP) — Todd and Julie Chrisley were driven by greed as they engaged in an extensive bank fraud scheme and then hid their wealth from tax authorities while flaunting their lavish lifestyle, federal prosecutors said, arguing the reality television stars should receive lengthy prison sentences.
The Chrisleys gained fame with their show “Chrisley Knows Best,” which follows their tight-knit, boisterous family. They were found guilty on federal charges in June and are set to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross in a hearing that begins Monday and is likely to extend into Tuesday.
Using a process to calculate a sentencing guideline range based on several factors, federal prosecutors determined the upper end of that range is nearly 22 years for Todd Chrisley and about 12 and a half years for Julie Chrisley. The couple should also be ordered to pay restitution, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
“The Chrisleys have built an empire based on the lie that their wealth came from dedication and hard work,” prosecutors wrote. “The jury’s unanimous verdict sets the record straight: Todd and Julie Chrisley are career swindlers who have made a living by jumping from one fraud scheme to another, lying to banks, stiffing vendors, and evading taxes at every corner.”
The Chrisleys disagree with the government’s guideline calculations. Todd Chrisley’s lawyers wrote in a filing that he should not face more than nine years in prison and that the judge should sentence him below the lower end of the guidelines. Julie Chrisley’s lawyers wrote that a reasonable sentence for her would be probation with special conditions and no prison time.
The Chrisleys were convicted in June on charges of bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiring to defraud the IRS. Julie Chrisley was also convicted of wire fraud and obstruction of justice.
Peter Tarantino, an accountant hired by the couple, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the IRS and willfully filing false tax returns. He is set to be sentenced along with the Chrisleys.
Prosecutors have said the couple submitted fake documents to banks and managed to secure more than $30 million in fraudulent loans. Once that scheme fell apart, they walked away from their responsibility to repay the loans when Todd Chrisley declared bankruptcy. While in bankruptcy, they started their reality show and “flaunted their wealth and lifestyle to the American public,” prosecutors wrote. When they began making millions from their show, they hid the money from the IRS to avoid paying taxes.
The Chrisleys submitted a false document to a grand jury that was investigating their crimes and then convinced friends and family members to tell lies while testifying under oath during their trial, prosecutors wrote. Neither of them has shown any remorse and they have, instead, blamed others for their own criminal conduct, prosecutors wrote.
“The Chrisleys are unique given the varied and wide-ranging scope of their fraudulent conduct and the extent to which they engaged in fraud and obstructive behavior for a prolonged period of time,” prosecutors wrote.
Todd Chrisley’s lawyers wrote in a court filing that the government never produced any evidence that he meant to defraud any of the banks and that the loss amount calculated by the government is incorrect. They also noted that the offenses of which he was convicted were committed a long time ago. He has no serious criminal history and has medical conditions that “would make imprisonment disproportionately harsh,” they wrote.
His lawyers submitted letters from friends and business associates that show “a history of good deeds and striving to help others.” People who rely on Chrisley — including his mother and the “scores of people” employed by his television shows — will be harmed while he’s in prison, his lawyers wrote.
They urged the judge to give him a prison sentence below the guideline range followed by supervised release and restitution.
Julie Chrisley’s lawyers wrote in a filing that she had a minimal role in the conspiracy and was not involved when the loans discussed in sentencing documents were obtained. She has no prior convictions, is an asset to her community and has “extraordinary family obligations,” her lawyers wrote, as they asked for a sentence of probation, restitution and community service.
The Chrisleys have three children together, including one who is 16, and also have full custody of the 10-year-old daughter of Todd Chrisley’s son from a prior marriage. Julie Chrisley is the primary caregiver to her ailing mother-in-law, the filing says. Her lawyers submitted letters from family and friends that show she is “hard-working, unfailingly selfless, devoted to her family and friend, highly respected by all who know her, and strong of character.”
If the judge does sentence both Chrisleys to prison, Julie Chrisley’s lawyers asked that their prison terms be staggered so she can remain on supervised release until her husband is done serving his sentence or until their granddaughter turns 18.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-21T14:22:08+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/11/21/reality-tv-stars-todd-julie-chrisley-be-sentenced/ |
ALBANY — New York's 2024 presidential primary would be moved up to April 2 under a bill approved by the state Legislature.
New York's 2020 Democratic presidential primary was held on June 23. There was no Republican presidential primary.
The bill was sponsored by the Democratic leaders in state Senate and Assembly and approved in both houses late Thursday.
Under the Democratic Party rules, New York could send additional delegates to the national convention if two neighboring states have their primaries on the same day.
There are proposals in neighboring Pennsylvania and Connecticut to set April 2 as the presidential primary date. However, the state Senate in Connecticut adjourned this week without voting on that state's proposal.
The New York measure will be sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul for her consideration. | 2023-06-09T20:31:16+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/new-york-lawmakers-seek-april-2-presidential-primary-in-2024/article_b94b1b1e-06fd-11ee-9688-4748e29a9432.html |
By SUSIE BLANN and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Bakhmut was “only in our hearts,” hours after Russia’s defense ministry reported that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, had seized the city in eastern Ukraine.
Speaking alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Zelenskyy said the Russians had destroyed “everything.” “You have to understand that there is nothing,” he said.
“For today, Bakhmut is only in our hearts,” he said. “There is nothing in this place.”
The Russian ministry statement on the Telegram channel came about eight hours after a similar announcement by Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin. Ukrainian authorities at that time said that fighting for Bakhmut was continuing.
The eight-month battle for Bakhmut has been the longest and probably most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy’s comments came as Biden announced $375 million more in aid for Ukraine, which included more ammunition, artillery, and vehicles.
“I thanked him for the significant financial assistance to (Ukraine) from (the U.S.),” Zelenskyy tweeted later.
Analysts said that a Russian victory in Bakhmut was unlikely to turn the tide in the war.
The Russian capture of the last remaining ground in Bakhmut is “not tactically or operationally significant,” a Washington-based think tank said late Saturday. The Institute for the Study of War said that taking control of these areas “does not grant Russian forces operationally significant terrain to continue conducting offensive operations,” nor to “to defend against possible Ukrainian counterattacks.”
Using the city’s Soviet-era name, the Russian ministry said, “In the Artyomovsk tactical direction, the assault teams of the Wagner private military company with the support of artillery and aviation of the southern battlegroup has completed the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk.”
Russian state news agencies cited the Kremlin’s press service as saying President Vladimir Putin “congratulates the Wagner assault detachments, as well as all servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces units, who provided them with the necessary support and flank protection, on the completion of the operation to liberate Artyomovsk.”
In a video posted earlier on Telegram, Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said the city came under complete Russian control at about midday Saturday. He spoke flanked by about a half dozen fighters, with ruined buildings in the background and explosions heard in the distance.
Fighting has raged in and around Bakhmut for more than eight months.
Russian forces will still face the massive task of seizing the remaining part of the Donetsk region still under Ukrainian control, including several heavily fortified areas.
It isn’t clear which side has paid a higher price in the battle for Bakhmut. Both Russia and Ukraine have endured losses believed to be in the thousands, though neither has disclosed casualty numbers.
Zelenskyy underlined the importance of defending Bakhmut in an interview with The Associated Press in March, saying its fall could allow Russia to rally international support for a deal that might require Kyiv to make unacceptable compromises.
Analysts have said Bakhmut’s fall would be a blow to Ukraine and give some tactical advantages to Russia but wouldn’t prove decisive to the outcome of the war.
Russian forces still face the enormous task of seizing the rest of the Donetsk region under Ukrainian control, including several heavily fortified areas. The provinces of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk make up the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland where a separatist uprising began in 2014 and which Moscow illegally annexed in September.
Bakhmut, located about 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of the Russian-held regional capital of Donetsk, had a prewar population of 80,000 and was an important industrial center, surrounded by salt and gypsum mines.
The city, which was named Artyomovsk after a Bolshevik revolutionary when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, also was known for its sparkling wine production in underground caves. Its broad tree-lined avenues, lush parks and stately downtown with imposing late 19th-century mansions — all now reduced to a smoldering wasteland — made it a popular tourist destination.
When a separatist rebellion engulfed eastern Ukraine in 2014 weeks after Moscow’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, the rebels quickly won control of the city, only to lose it a few months later.
After Russia switched its focus to the Donbas following a botched attempt to seize Kyiv early in the February 2022 invasion, Moscow’s troops tried to take Bakhmut in August but were pushed back.
The fighting there abated in autumn as Russia was confronted with Ukrainian counteroffensives in the east and the south, but it resumed at full pace late last year. In January, Russia captured the salt-mining town of Soledar, just north of Bakhmut, and closed in on the city’s suburbs.
Intense Russian shelling targeted the city and nearby villages as Moscow waged a three-sided assault to try to finish off the resistance in what Ukrainians called “fortress Bakhmut.”
Mercenaries from Wagner spearheaded the Russian offensive. Prigozhin tried to use the battle for the city to expand his clout amid the tensions with the top Russian military leaders whom he harshly criticized.
“We fought not only with the Ukrainian armed forces in Bakhmut. We fought the Russian bureaucracy, which threw sand in the wheels,” Prigozhin said in the video on Saturday.
The relentless Russian artillery bombardment left few buildings intact amid ferocious house-to-house battles. Wagner fighters “marched on the bodies of their own soldiers” according to Ukrainian officials. Both sides have spent ammunition at a rate unseen in any armed conflict for decades, firing thousands of rounds a day.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said that seizing the city would allow Russia to press its offensive farther into the Donetsk region, one of the four Ukrainian provinces that Moscow illegally annexed in September.
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Zeke Miller reported from Hiroshima, Japan.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-05-21T09:35:09+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/21/zelenskyy-says-bakhmut-is-only-in-our-hearts-after-russia-claims-control-of-ukrainian-city/ |
(AP) – A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Thursday.
Kellye SoRelle — general counsel for the antigovernment group — was arrested in Texas on charges including conspiracy to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral college victory, the Justice Department said.
SoRelle, 43, is a close associate of Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers’ leader who is heading to trial later this month alongside other extremists on seditious conspiracy charges.
After Rhodes’ arrest in January, SoRelle told media outlets she was acting as the president of the Oath Keepers while he’s behind bars.
Prosecutors have accused Rhodes and his militia group of plotting for weeks to stop the transfer of power and keep former President Donald Trump in office, purchasing weapons, organizing military-style trainings and setting up battle plans.
SoRelle told The Associated Press last year — when FBI agents seized her phone as part of the Jan 6. investigation — that she had no knowledge of or involvement in the Capitol breach. She called the seizure of her phone “unethical” and the investigation “a witch hunt.”
She is expected to make an initial appearance in federal court in Austin, Texas, later Thursday and it wasn’t immediately clear if she has an attorney to speak on her behalf.
SoRelle was photographed with Rhodes outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 and was present at an underground garage meeting the night before the riot that’s been a focus for investigators.
The meeting included Rhodes and and Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, who is charged separately with seditious conspiracy alongside other members of the extremist group that describes themselves as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.”
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Publicly released video of the meeting doesn’t reveal much about their discussion and prosecutors have said only that one of the meeting’s participants “referenced the Capitol.”
SoRelle was also on a call with Rhodes and other Oath Keepers days after the 2020 election during which Rhodes rallied his followers to prepare for violence, according to a transcript made public in court.
SoRelle is also charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice for tampering with documents and a misdemeanor charge for entering Capitol grounds. The indictment says she persuaded others to destroy and conceal records sought by investigators.
SoRelle told the AP last September that agents seized her phone and provided her a search warrant that said it was related to an investigation into seditious conspiracy, among other crimes. The indictment against SoRelle made public Thursday does not include a charge of seditious conspiracy.
Rhodes and four co-defendants scheduled to go on trial starting Sept. 26 have said there was no plot to attack the Capitol and that their communications in the run up to Jan. 6 were about providing security for right-wing figures such as Roger Stone or preparing for attacks from left-wing antifa activists.
Rhodes, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, founded the Oath Keepers in 2009. The group recruits current and former military, police and first responders and pledges to “fulfill the oath all military and police take to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
A slew of its members have been charged in connection with Jan. 6. Three Oath Keepers have already pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, a rare Civil War-era charge that’s historically been hard to prove. They are also cooperating with the Justice Department. | 2022-09-23T02:25:41+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/oath-keepers-lawyer-arrested-in-connection-with-jan-6-attack/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — School districts across the country continue to struggle with the impact of teacher shortages. Illinois schools have reported 3,558 open positions this school year. Gov. JB Pritzker unveiled a new initiative Friday to tackle the issue with a new $210 million investment over the next three years.
One-hundred and seventy school districts could receive teacher pipeline grants through the Fiscal Year 2024 budget. The Pritzker administration chose the specific school districts as they account for 80% of the state's unfilled teaching positions. The vacancies are concentrated in high-need subjects such as bilingual education, special education, and STEM.
"This is why the teacher pipeline program will target districts with the resources they need to solve locally the challenge that they have for recruitment and retention and remove barriers preventing aspiring educators from pursuing a calling to teaching," said Dr. Tony Sanders, the new State Superintendent of Education.
Pritzker's three-year plan could allow the districts to use grant funding to offer signing bonuses, down-payment assistance, or loan repayments.
"Over 870,000 Illinois students will see an improved teacher-student ratio, a critical factor in classroom success," Pritzker said.
The governor noted that the funding could also help schools pay tuition and fees or provide residencies for prospective teachers.
"For most, this isn't just a job. It's a calling," Pritzker said. "And our commitment is to support you as passionately as you support our parents and our kids."
The funding could also help districts retain teachers by providing new learning materials, supplies, coaching, and cultural support. Democratic lawmakers said this teacher pipeline is a great first step to ensure every student is represented and supported by their teachers.
"The need for qualified diverse educators is dire for communities and school districts across Illinois, especially for predominantly Black and Latino communities whose educational outcomes have been shown to greatly improve when teachers of color are represented and reflective of the community," said Sen. Cristina Castro (D-Elgin).
The Illinois Education Association and Illinois Federation of Teachers look forward to working with Pritzker to help pass and implement this plan. IFT President Dan Montgomery said addressing the issue of recruiting and retaining staff is critical to improving everything in education. He stressed that there are currently classrooms where there isn't a teacher in the room and some students end up in front of a TV or an adult who isn't qualified to teach the subject.
"Teachers are asked, 'Hey, can you go in and cover this classroom?, and they can't prepare for their next class," Montgomery said. "The stress and the difficulties of delivering the education kids need is really multiplied that way."
State lawmakers would need to approve the initial $70 million investment for this program in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget before the spring session ends in May.
"I'm excited about the $70 million investment that Gov. Pritzker's administration has proposed," said Rep. Anna Moeller (D-Elgin). "I look forward to further discussions and negotiations as we work to pass our budget this year and broader efforts that are going to ensure that we are providing every student in Illinois with a great education."
The Illinois State Board of Education reported 153 vacancies for the Champaign and Ford County schools for the 2023 school year. The Springfield-Menard Regional Office of Education reported 99 unfilled position. Meanwhile, Macon and Piatt County schools only documented a shortage of 7.5 teachers.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy environment industry press releases from PR Newswire, including SAS's efforts to protect sea turtles and a new sustainable olive farm.
NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the environment industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- SAS seeks crowd-driven AI to protect endangered sea turtles in Galapagos
Through an app called ConserVision, citizen scientists are invited to match images of turtles' facial markings to help train a SAS computer vision model. Once the model can accurately identify turtles individually, researchers will have valuable information more quickly to better track each turtle's health and migratory patterns over periods of time. - Pompeian® Unveils the First Sustainably Grown® Certified Olive Farm and Olive Oil in North America
Pompeian is the first olive oil brand in North America, and currently the only in the world, to have a Sustainably Grown® Certified olive farm and olive oil. - World Bee Day May 20 - How to Help Your Local Bees
"You don't need a large garden to help your local bees," says Kelly Martin from gardening website Urban Garden Gal. "Grow some flowers in containers, plant a flowering tree or replace part of your lawn with clover to give bees a valuable source of food." - Honeywell Introduces UOP eFining™ Technology for New Class of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Honeywell's UOP eFining is a methanol to jet fuel (MTJ) processing technology that can convert eMethanol to eSAF reliably and at scale. The technology is efficient, resulting in high-yield eSAF production at a lower cost relative to comparable technologies. - Mast Reforestation announces securing $15M in project financing from Carbon Streaming to accelerate reforestation efforts post wildfire
This first-of-its-kind project financing will cover the high upfront costs of reforestation projects, accelerating Mast's forest restoration work and enabling the company to serve more landowners affected by wildfires. - Dow's Seadrift, Texas location selected for X-energy advanced SMR nuclear project to deliver safe, reliable, zero carbon emissions power and steam production
The project is expected to reduce the Seadrift site's emissions by approximately 440,000 MT CO2e/year. Dow and X-energy will now prepare and submit a Construction Permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC"), an important milestone to bringing the project to fruition. - Treasury Americas Leads United States Wine Industry with Largest On-Site Solar Installation Every Treasury Americas winery will receive over half of its electricity needs from on-site solar generation. The project will involve the installation of approximately 13,000 solar panels across Treasury Americas' properties, and when complete, the company's total on-site solar generation will be approximately 14.3 million kWh annually.
- ChrysaLabs Secures CA $15 Million ($11 Million) Series A Funding to Increase Instant Access to Reliable and Low-Cost Soil Insights, Including Carbon Verification A ChrysaLabs Probe™ combines three cutting-edge and patented technologies with AI machine learning to deliver real-time insights straight to the field. The sampling probe analyzes 40 different soil parameters to provide a precise overview of what is happening in the soil, at a lower cost than traditional soil testing.
- Clayton® Commits to Build All Residential Manufactured Homes to DOE Zero Energy Ready Home™ Specifications by End of 2023
These solar-ready homes, available to order in July 2023, will include enhanced energy efficiency features that significantly reduce energy costs for homeowners, while also supporting the company's broader sustainability goals.
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SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia State Police is asking for the public’s help in its investigation into a three-vehicle crash that claimed the lives of two people and seriously injured two others.
According to police, the crash occurred on Monday, Sept. 26 at 11:35 p.m. on Interstate 95 at mile marker 127 in Spotsylvania County. It was determined that a 2010 Mercury Mariner was heading south on I-95 in the left lane when it collided with a 2008 Acura MDX in the center lane. Police said the impact of the collision forced the Acura to run off the left side of the road and across the median, after which it struck a northbound 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
The driver of the Acura, 52-year-old Berthe N. Ngundji, and a passenger, 60-year-old Jacques F. Ngundji, both of Richmond, died at the scene. Police added that the driver of the Jeep, identified as a 23-year-old male from North Carolina, and his passenger, a 22-year-old female, were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
The drivers and passengers in the Acura and the Jeep were all wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.
The driver of the Mercury, identified as 48-year-old Wendy C. Gudiness of Ruther Glen, fled the scene of the crash and was later found in Ruther Glen, uninjured from the incident. Police said she was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
Deputies arrested Gudiness and took her to the Rappahannock Regional Jail. She has been charged with felony hit-and-run and is being held without bail, according to police. Additional charges are pending.
The investigation into the crash remains ongoing. Anyone who may have seen the crash or has any information is asked to call Virginia State Trooper L. Batten at 540-891-4108 or email questions@vsp.virginia.gov. | 2022-09-29T17:23:07+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/crime/2-killed-2-injured-in-three-vehicle-hit-and-run-crash-in-spotsylvania/ |
The episodic film’s intertwining and only loosely related narratives are, for the most part, mundane, taking place shortly after a 2011 earthquake that has rocked Tokyo. Two characters appear throughout, both unsatisfied employees of the same bank: Komura (voice of Ryan Bommarito in this English-language dub of the French film) is distracted at the office after his wife, obsessed with TV coverage of the devastation, abruptly leaves him and her pet cat that has gone missing. Meanwhile, the debt collector Katagiri (Marcelo Arroyo) is caught up in something more fantastic: He’s visited by the aforementioned frog, a mysterious creature that is convinced the middle-aged office worker is the only person who can save Tokyo from a tsunami.
It’s an intriguing concept, familiar to anyone who knows Murakami’s work. But the character design devised by Földes (who also composed the film’s self-consciously quirky score and even voiced the frog) is too often distracting, with oddly shaped heads, as if in a painting by German artist Otto Dix. The look suits Katagiri — you wouldn’t expect someone who talks to frogs to look ordinary — but when it comes to the domestic crises that dominate the film, the distorted features get in the way of quiet drama.
What’s more, Földes overloads the narrative by shoehorning half a dozen or so short stories into the plot. The most successful adaptations of Murakami — Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” — take a single story and expand its world. Yet the six sprawling chapters of “Blind Willow” don’t linger long enough in the mind to establish that elusive Murakami touch for more than a few minutes at a time.
Nevertheless, the film manages to work, if only in fits and starts, when the setting is intimate enough that the aesthetics don’t get in the way. There are brief moments when Földes and his voice cast capture Murakami’s essence, conveying a deceptively calm exterior that hides startling and sometimes absurd forces beneath.
Most curiously, Földes initially intended “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” to be a hybrid of live action and animation. Somehow, for all the work that went into the film, it comes across as something that may have worked better as an audiobook. There are sequences of efficient dialogue that — if you close your eyes — unspool the kind of low-key, elliptical tension that Murakami seems to be able to pull off in his sleep. But as soon as you open them again, the aggressively odd visuals ruin the illusion.
Except for the cats.
Unrated. At the AFI Silver. Contains sexual situations, nudity and violent imagery. 110 minutes. | 2023-05-30T13:10:26+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2023/05/30/blind-willow-sleeping-woman-movie-review/ |
HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood has experience of seeing a wave of support carry a home favorite all the way to the claret jug.
In 2019, Fleetwood was in the final group with Shane Lowry on the Sunday of the British Open at Royal Portrush. Lowry wound up winning by six shots and was the toast of the whole of Ireland.
Fleetwood has imagined “a million times” the same thing happening to him on English soil. And there’s hardly anywhere better than at Royal Liverpool, close to where he grew up.
There’d be no more popular champion this week than Fleetwood, a 32-year-old distinctive because of his flowing locks.
“Winning the Open is a huge, huge dream. No matter where that is, that’s always something I’ve visualized and always thought about,” he said Wednesday.
“But then again, having the opportunity to do it so close to where you grew up is something that’s very unique and very special.”
Growing up, Fleetwood lived in a house just round the corner from Royal Birkdale, which he’d get on when accompanying his father, Peter, on evening dog walks. He was the poster boy when the Open was held there in 2017 and finished tied for 27th.
Hoylake is down the coast from Royal Birkdale, along the Irish Sea, and Fleetwood recalls playing it as a junior.
“I don’t know the course that well,” he said, before adding: “But I do know it better than most.”
This week will be memorable for Fleetwood whatever happens on the course. Friday marks the first anniversary of his mother’s death and it is one of the motivations fueling his run at a first major title.
“We know that that’s coming up,” Fleetwood said. “It would be nice to think she’s watching over.”
Fleetwood arrives at Royal Liverpool with three top-six finishes in his last four events, including a loss in a playoff with Nick Taylor at the RBC Canadian Open and a tie for fifth at the U.S. Open after a closing 63.
The 21st-ranked Fleetwood is among a group of players — including Matt Fitzpatrick, Tyrrell Hatton and Justin Rose — seeking to become the first Englishman since Nick Faldo in 1992 to win the British Open. Tony Jacklin, in 1969, was the last Englishman to win an Open in England.
Wyndham Clark is the U.S. Open champion, and he looks forward to that time when he can see the silver trophy at home in Arizona and reflect on his marvelous feat.
That will have to wait. The U.S. Open ended on June 18. Clark still hasn’t been home.
He played the Travelers Championship the following week in Connecticut, and then has been in Europe ever since.
“I had a wedding in Italy,” Clark said. “So I went to Italy, and then I said, ‘Well, let’s just stay. We just won a major; let’s enjoy it.’ So my girlfriend and I stayed there for another 10 days and then played the Scottish last week.”
Clark likely can count on another trip to Italy. His two wins this year were big ones — the Wells Fargo Championship with its $20 million purse ($4 million to the winner) and the U.S. Open, which counts double toward the Ryder Cup.
That moved him to No. 2 in the U.S. standings and he is looking like a lock to make his Ryder Cup debut at Marco Simone outside Rome at the end of September.
Scottie Scheffler is the only player to have mathematically clinched a spot.
“I would like to think I’m on the team, but at the same time, I believe I’ve still got to go earn it,” Clark said.
The R&A already works with Augusta National on the Asia-Pacific Amateur, and with Augusta National and the USGA on the Latin America Amateur.
Now it’s going out on its own by creating a similar tournament for Africa.
Martin Slumbers, the CEO of the R&A, on Wednesday announced the African Amateur Championship. It will be Feb. 21-24 next year at Leopard Creek in South Africa, a 72-man field with 72 holes of stroke play.
The winner will earn a spot in the British Open next year at Royal Troon.
“It’s a hugely exciting initiative for African golf, and it’s the last part of the continent around the world where we don’t have our own championships that we now do,” Slumbers said.
The other two amateur championships have been successful. The Asia-Pacific Amateur produced two-time winner Hideki Matsuyama, who went on to win the Masters. Seven players in the field at the British Open have won the Asia Pacific or Latin American Amateur.
The British Open typically has a local connection hit the opening shot of the tournament, such as Paul Lawrie at St. Andrews last year or Darren Clarke at Royal Portrush in 2019.
This year the choice was easy.
Matthew Jordan not only grew up in the area, he’s a member at Royal Liverpool. Jordan earned his place through Final Local Qualifying two weeks ago.
Tommy Fleetwood knows him well.
“I actually played with him when he was like 16 around here, and I remember coming off and saying, ‘This kid is really, really good.’ I think he’ll continue to grow, but this is a great week and opportunity for him. Being at your home course, it doesn’t always follow. You know the course well, but that doesn’t mean loads.
“But it’s a great opportunity. Hopefully he’ll get a bit of momentum going early doors and see what he can do.”
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-20T15:08:41+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national-sports/ap-tommy-fleetwood-carries-home-hopes-as-the-english-seek-a-first-british-open-winner-since-1992/ |
WESTBROOK, Maine, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), a global leader in pet healthcare innovation, has scheduled the release of its 2022 fourth quarter and full year financial results for Monday, February 6, 2023 before the market opens. The Company will conduct an analyst conference call beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET on that day.
Individuals can access a live webcast of the conference call, transcript of prepared remarks, and the Q4 2022 Earnings Snapshot through a link on the IDEXX website, www.idexx.com/investors. An archived edition of the webcast will be available after 1:00 p.m. ET on that day via the same link and will remain available for one year.
The live call also will be accessible by telephone. To listen to the live conference call, please dial 1-800-289-0459 or 1-323-794-2095 and reference access code 819614.
IDEXX is a global leader in pet healthcare innovation. Our diagnostic and software products and services create clarity in the complex, constantly evolving world of veterinary medicine. We support longer, fuller lives for pets by delivering insights and solutions that help the veterinary community around the world make confident decisions—to advance medical care, improve efficiency, and build thriving practices. Our innovations also help ensure the safety of milk and water across the world and maintain the health and well-being of people and livestock. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a member of the S&P 500® Index. Headquartered in Maine, IDEXX employs more than 10,000 people and offers solutions and products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information about IDEXX, visit idexx.com.
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EL PASO, Texas, April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The David L. Carrasco Job Corps campus has immediate availability to safely provide campus living, overall health and wellness, and educate qualified applicants and place them directly into employment in our community.
At the David L. Carrasco Job Corps, the campus has the capacity to serve 379 students aged 16-24 in areas such as Automotive Technician, Welding, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, and Rehabilitation Technician. In addition, the campus works directly with local and national employers to help them fill in-demand and well-paying positions. This includes Proactive Motion Therapy, La Quinta Inn and Fox Toyota.
Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced the number of students the David L. Carrasco Job Corps campus has served over the past year and a half. But with effective vaccines and continued safety precautions, the campus is now ready to expand its training opportunities.
"We are incredibly excited that our campus has [reopened/expanded our training opportunities] and are eager to bring in deserving young people and help them start their careers," stated Doe Attipoe the Center Director at the David L. Carrasco Job Corps campus. "With a long track record of successfully placing our graduates into meaningful careers in El Paso, we want our community to know that Job Corps is a terrific first option for any interested young person."
The David L. Carrasco Job Corps campus has already demonstrated they are able to provide safe and healthy residential living and serve students effectively despite COVID. The program has protocols and policies in place to track COVID symptoms, test, and prevent an outbreak.
"The past two years has been trying for all of us. This time has also shown us that Job Corps dedication to teaching trades to young people has made a big difference not only in the lives of our students and their families, but in the lives of Americans reliant upon the work Job Corps alumni have been trained to do," said Byron V. Garrett, CEO and President of National Job Corps Association. "Given our availability to immediately serve students, we know the potential for our campuses to transform lives and want everyone to know that Job Corps is reopened and ready to help."
About ODLE Management
Founded in 2004 by Lisa S. Odle, President and CEO, ODLE Management Group, LLC is an experienced workforce development provider. ODLE is the prime contractor and manages the day-to-day operations of several Job Corps campuses to include outreach, admissions and placement services. Prime contracts are in Louisiana (New Orleans), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), Virginia (Old Dominion in Monroe), Texas (El Paso) and Oklahoma (Tulsa). In addition, Odle is a subcontractor in New Mexico (Albuquerque), Florida (Pinellas County) and Washington, D.C. (Potomac).
ODLE has received distinguished honors from the Small Business Administration, Arizona Small Business Administration, and the Arizona Small Business Development Center. In February 2020, ODLE completed a merger with Eckerd Connects, a private, national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization; ODLE remains a separate organization and a wholly owned subsidiary.
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(NEXSTAR) – Actor Paul Grant has died after collapsing outside a London train station, his family confirmed to British news outlets Monday. He was 56 years old.
Grant’s acting credits include parts in two of the biggest series in movie history, “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter.” He played an Ewok in “Return of the Jedi” and a goblin in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
Grant was found by emergency crews Thursday afternoon and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced brain dead, according to Sky News. He was officially pronounced dead early Monday morning.
He collapsed at King’s Cross Station – a transit hub made famous internationally by the “Harry Potter” books and movies.
The Daily Mail reports he leaves behind three children.
Grant’s daughter, Sophie Jayne Grant, told The Sun, “My dad was a legend in so many ways. … He always brought a smile and laughter to everyone’s face.”
According to his IMDb page, Grant also acted in the 1986 movie “Labyrinth,” and did stunts in “Legend” and “Willow.” | 2023-03-20T18:35:53+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/star-wars-actor-paul-grant-dead-at-56-reports/ |
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‘It was like a heartbeat’: Residents at a loss after newspaper shutters in declining coal county
By LEAH WILLINGHAM
Associated Press
WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Months after the last newspaper closed in a declining coal community in West Virginia, residents say they are already experiencing challenges getting and sharing information. In March, The Welch News in McDowell County weekly became another one of the thousands of U.S. newspapers that have shuttered since 2005. It’s a crisis publisher and owner Missy Nester called “terrifying for democracy” and one that disproportionately impacts rural Americans. Residents suddenly have no way of knowing what’s happening at public meetings. Local crises, like the desperately needed upgrade of water and sewer systems, are going unreported. And there is no one to keep disinformation in check. | 2023-07-26T05:40:37+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/07/25/it-was-like-a-heartbeat-residents-at-a-loss-after-newspaper-shutters-in-declining-coal-county-2/ |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of Sri Lankans jostled Monday to use the vast array of exercise machines in the private gym of the presidential palace, lifting weights and running on treadmills inside a facility that was, until now, the exclusive domain of the country’s beleaguered president.
For many who had traveled on overcrowded trains and buses from outside the capital, Colombo, this was the first time they had laid eyes on a residence so grand. The colonial-era structure was a staggering sight, with airy verandas, plush living rooms and spacious bedrooms, a garden swimming pool and neatly manicured lawns.
On Saturday, thousands of angry Sri Lankans descended on the residence in fury against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who they blame for an unprecedented economic meltdown that has throttled the lives of the nation’s 22 million people. They turned over barriers and then swarmed the lawns to enter the palatial residence and occupy it.
Two days later, people continued to stream in, flocking to it like a tourist attraction, marveling at the paintings inside and lounging on the beds piled high with pillows.
Alawwa Ralage Piyasena, a 67-year-old farmer who arrived by bus from outside Colombo, was stunned by the president’s gym. “I never thought I would get an opportunity to see these things,” he said, gesturing at the equipment while trying to hop onto a treadmill.
“Look at the pool and this gym. We can see how they enjoyed a life of luxury here while people struggled outside. Our families are suffering without food.”
The weekend saw the most dramatic escalation yet of the monthslong protests against the country’s worst economic crisis, with protesters not only forcing their way into the presidential palace but also storming the prime minister’s official residence and setting fire to his private home.
The charged events led to both leaders agreeing to step down — Rajapaksa, who has not been seen publicly or heard from since, said he would leave office Wednesday. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would depart as soon as opposition parties agree on a unity government.
But protest leaders have said they will not leave the official buildings until both actually resign.
For months, demonstrators have camped outside Rajapaksa’s office, demanding he quit for severely mismanaging the economy. Many have accused him and his powerful, dynastic family, which has ruled Sri Lanka for nearly two decades, of corruption and policy blunders that tipped the island nation into crisis.
People’s patience has grown increasingly thin, with the crisis sparking shortages of fuel, medicine, food and cooking gas. Authorities have temporarily shuttered schools, while the country relies on aid from India and other nations as it tries to negotiate a bailout with the International Monetary Fund. Wickremesinghe said recently that negotiations with the IMF were complex because Sri Lanka was now a bankrupt state.
Sri Lanka announced in April that it was suspending repayment of foreign loans due to a foreign currency shortage. Its total foreign debt amounts to $51 billion, of which it must repay $28 billion by the end of 2027.
The severe fuel shortage has choked transport, forcing many to use public buses, trains and even bicycles to get around. Hundreds of people held onto the roofs of overcrowded trains to make the journey to the presidential palace.
At first, thousands stormed the residence in rage, waving the national flag and chanting “Gota Go Home!” But since Rajapaksa announced he would resign, many of those arriving now were jubilant, strolling the vast residence as sightseers. Inside and outside the complex, scores of unarmed policemen patrolled the area — but did not stop the deluge of crowds from coming in.
On Monday, the place was packed. The official residence had been forbidden to the general public, and even those invited were only allowed into certain areas.
People peered into each room, settling into beds and taking copious selfies. But no one dared to dip into the pool on Monday, after videos on social media showed crowds splashing in glee over the weekend. Now, the once clear blue water had turned a muddy brown.
In the lush green gardens outside, groups gathered with snacks, sipping on soda and tea, as though they were out on a picnic with friends and family.
“This belongs to the people,” declared Padama Gamage, a laborer, who traveled on a bus from Galle, on the country’s southwestern tip. “Now I know how these leaders enjoyed luxury at our cost.”
Not all were relaxing, however. Groups of volunteers banded together, sweeping up broken chairs and glass from damaged windows, a sign of the rage that swept through on Saturday. They tried to control the throng, saying some people were again vandalizing the property.
“If allowed, they would even take the doors and windows, so we are trying to control the crowd,” said Bulupitiyage Suresh, a 29-year-old who has been protesting against Rajapaksa for over a month.
Welihitiyawe Dhammawimala, a Buddhist monk, lamented the damage, saying public money will now be spent on refurbishing the place. “Had Rajapaksa resigned earlier, this would not have happened,” he said.
Nearby, people waited in a long line to enter the president’s office, now taken over by the protesters who had hunkered outside it for months. The line grew longer by the day, almost resembling the long queues people have been forced to wait in for months to get fuel.
A few kilometers (miles) away, the prime minister’s official residence, known as Temple Trees, was also overrun by protesters. Singing crowds gathered around a man playing a piano inside while others cluster around a Carrom board game or slept on the overstuffed sofas. Outside, people cooked rice and curry, offering it freely to passersby.
Back at Rajapaksa’s official residence, Supun Dhammika, a student, fumed over the family’s legacy in the country.
“The fall of the presidential residence into the hands of protesters and the public symbolizes the fall of the Rajapaksa dynasty,” he said.
“If they think they can come back from this, it’s only a dream. They ruined the country and they have no right to seek votes from people ever again.” | 2022-07-11T18:34:23+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/ap-top-headlines/taking-selfies-sri-lankans-converge-on-presidential-palace/ |
CHICOPEE — Road resurfacing projects are scheduled to begin on Monday on two heavily traveled city roads.
The work will be done on Granby Road and Buckley Boulevard. Motorists are recommended to find alternative routes when possible and expect delays during the duration of the projects, said Michael Pise, chief of staff for Mayor John L. Vieau.
The two projects will cost a total of $1.99 million, which is to come from highway road bond money. Warner Brothers Construction, of Sunderland, which was the low bidder for the project, is doing the work, Douglas E. Ellis, the city engineer, said in writing.
The Granby Road repaving will be completed in two parts with the first phase planned for the area between the Davitt Bridge and the intersection of Grattan. The second phase will continue from the intersection of Grattan Street to the intersection of Bay State Road, he said.
The hilly section of Buckley Boulevard will also be repaved between the two intersections with Prospect Street, he said.
The projects were announced during a Tuesday City Council meeting, prompting City Council President Frank N. Laflamme to ask about crosswalk improvements to Granby Road, which residents have requested over the years.
“We need crosswalks put in on Granby Road,” he said. “If we are going to redo that road, now is the time to do this.”
Pise said discussions will have to begin quickly since the road is expected to be torn up starting at the Davitt Bridge in less than a week.
The city is also resuming work on Columba Street, after construction was stalled while officials waited for materials. The $738,688 project is being paid for with highway road bond money and is a complete reconstruction of the road and the old water main is being replaced, Ellis said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general on Friday warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has violated the country’s law on conflict of interest, which barred him from direct involvement in his government’s divisive plans for a judicial overhaul while standing trial for corruption.
Netanyahu’s far-right government has barreled ahead with plans to weaken the Supreme Court and grant politicians less judicial oversight in their policymaking despite massive protests from across Israeli society — including an uproar among business leaders, top legal officials and military reservists. On Thursday, just hours after his coalition passed a law that would protect the Israeli leader from being deemed unfit to rule because of his corruption trial and claims of a conflict of interest, Netanyahu defiantly pledged to proceed with the overhaul.
Netanyahu contended that stripping the attorney general of the power to remove him from office was necessary to clear the way for him to participate in the negotiations on the judicial overhaul and try to “mend the rift” in the polarized nation.
“Until today my hands were tied,” Netanyahu said in a prime-time TV address Thursday, referring to the change in the law on removing a prime minister.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara thoroughly disagreed, sharply rebuking him in a letter Friday for breaking a conflict of interest agreement that had allowed him to continue leading the country while charged with corruption, bribery and breach of trust. The deal Netanyahu was pressed to sign in 2020 prevented him from being involved in legislative issues or key judicial appointments that could affect his ongoing trial.
“Your statement last night and any further actions by you that violate that agreement are completely illegal and in conflict of interest,” Baharav-Miara wrote in Friday’s letter. “The legal situation is clear — you must avoid any involvement in measures to change the judicial system.”
The contentious law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office, passed late Wednesday by a slim majority of 61 in the 120-seat parliament, does not undo the court’s earlier conflict of interest ruling, Baharav-Miara said.
Supporters of the judicial overhaul underway in Israel say it will restore power to elected legislators and make the courts less interventionist. Critics say the move upends Israel’s system of checks and balances and pushes it toward autocracy.
Netanyahu, on an official visit to Britain, did not respond to the attorney general’s letter, his office said. His far-right coalition ally, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, accused Baharav-Miara — who was appointed by a Netanyahu rival in the previous government — of having her own conflict of interest.
“She continues to act as the leader of the opposition and now interferes in the prime minister’s work,” he wrote on Twitter. “If Baharav-Miara wants to decide instead of elected officials, she’s invited to form a party and run for parliament.”
The consequences of Netanyahu’s legal violation were not immediately clear. The Movement for Quality Government in Israel, a good governance organization, pledged to file a petition urging that Netanyahu be held in contempt of court. “A prime minister who does not obey the court and its orders is an anarchist,” the group said, demanding that the “prime minister be subject to the sanctions set forth in the law, including heavy fines and imprisonment.” | 2023-03-24T20:38:39+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/israeli-ag-warns-netanyahu-defied-conflict-of-interest-rule/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. ("Metalla" or the "Company") (NYSE American: MTA) (TSXV: MTA) is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated November 28, 2022, it has closed (the "Closing") the acquisition of a portfolio of eight royalties in Mexico (the "Royalties") from First Majestic Silver (NYSE: AG) (TSX: FR) for 4,168,056 of common shares of Metalla at a price of US$4.7984 (representing the 25-day VWAP on the NYSE American at signing).
Metalla is a precious metals royalty and streaming company. Metalla provides shareholders with leveraged precious metal exposure through a diversified and growing portfolio of royalties and streams. Our strong foundation of current and future cash-generating asset base, combined with an experienced team, gives Metalla a path to become one of the leading gold and silver companies for the next commodities cycle.
For further information, please visit our website at www.metallaroyalty.com.
ON BEHALF OF METALLA ROYALTY & STREAMING LTD.
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Forward-looking statements and information are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the ability of Metalla to control or predict, that may cause Metalla's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied thereby, and are developed based on assumptions about such risks, uncertainties and other factors set out herein, including but not limited to: the risk that the milestones may not be satisfied; risks associated with the impact of general business and economic conditions; the absence of control over mining operations from which Metalla will purchase precious metals or from which it will receive stream or royalty payments and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, delays in mine development, construction and operations, actual results of mining and current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans are refined; problems related to the ability to market precious metals or other metals; industry conditions, including commodity price fluctuations, interest and exchange rate fluctuations; interpretation by government entities of tax laws or the implementation of new tax laws; regulatory, political or economic developments in any of the countries where properties in which Metalla holds a royalty, stream or other interest are located or through which they are held; risks related to the operators of the properties in which Metalla holds a royalty or stream or other interest, including changes in the ownership and control of such operators; risks related to global pandemics, including the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) global health pandemic, and the spread of other viruses or pathogens; influence of macroeconomic developments; business opportunities that become available to, or are pursued by Metalla; reduced access to debt and equity capital; litigation; title, permit or license disputes related to interests on any of the properties in which Metalla holds a royalty, stream or other interest; the volatility of the stock market; competition; future sales or issuances of debt or equity securities; use of proceeds; dividend policy and future payment of dividends; liquidity; market for securities; enforcement of civil judgments; and risks relating to Metalla potentially being a passive foreign investment company within the meaning of U.S. federal tax laws; and the other risks and uncertainties disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent annual information form, annual report on Form 40-F and other documents filed with or submitted to the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the EDGAR website at www.sec.gov. 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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities accused Ukraine on Wednesday of attempting to attack the Kremlin with two drones overnight in an effort to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian government denied any involvement.
The Kremlin decried the alleged attack attempt as a “terrorist act” and said Russian military and security forces “disabled” the drones before they could strike. It did not elaborate.
A statement on the Kremlin’s website said debris from the unmanned aerial vehicles fell on the grounds of the seat of Russia’s government but did not cause any damage. The statement, which did not explain what caused the drones to break up, said no casualties were reported.
A video published overnight on a local Moscow news Telegram channel, which appeared to have been shot across the river from the Kremlin, showed what looked like smoke rising over the Kremlin.
According to the text accompanying the video, residents of a nearby apartment building reported hearing bangs and seeing smoke at around 2:30 a.m. local time (7:30 p.m. Eastern.) It was impossible to independently verify the posted footage.
Ukraine’s presidential advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, argued that it would not make sense to target the Kremlin during Russia’s war on his country.
“We do not attack the Kremlin because, first of all, it does not solve any military problems. Absolutely. And this is extremely disadvantageous from the point of view of preparing our offensive measures,” Podolyak said.
“And most importantly, it would allow Russia to justify massive strikes on Ukrainian cities, on the civilian population, on infrastructure facilities. Why do we need this?” he added.
The Kremlin didn’t present any evidence to back up its account, including the allegation of an assassination attempt as Russia prepares to observe its annual Victory Day on Tuesday.
“We consider these actions as a planned terrorist act and an attempt on the life of the president of Russia, carried out on the eve of the Victory Day, the parade on May 9, where foreign dignitaries are expected,” the Kremlin’s statement read.
Russia retains the right to respond “when and where it sees fit,” the statement said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that Putin wasn’t in the Kremlin at the time and worked Wednesday from his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow.
The Kremlin added that Putin was safe and his schedule was unchanged. Peskov said the Victory Day parade would take place as scheduled.
Shortly before the news about the alleged attack broke, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin issued a ban on using drones in the Russian capital, with an exception for drones launched by authorities.
Sobyanin didn’t cite a reason for the ban, saying only that it would prevent “illegal use of drones that can hinder the work of law enforcement.”
A lawmaker who represents Crimea in Moscow, Mikhail Sheremet, told Russian state media that the Kremlin should order a missile strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s residence in Kyiv in retaliation for Wednesday’s alleged incident. | 2023-05-03T19:35:26+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/international/ap-international/russia-says-it-foiled-an-alleged-drone-attack-on-kremlin/ |
How a crowded GOP field could help Trump in 2024 campaign
NEW YORK (AP) — As he considers another White House run, polls show former President Donald Trump is the most popular figure in the Republican Party. But it wasn’t always that way.
Competing at one point against a dozen rivals for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, Trump won only about a third of the vote in key early states. He even lost the Iowa caucuses, which kick off the nomination process.
But he was able to prevail nonetheless because those in the party who opposed his brand of divisive politics were never able to coalesce around a single rival to confront him. And with Trump mulling another White House bid as soon as this summer, the same dynamic could repeat.
With a growing list of candidates gearing up for their own presidential runs, even a Trump diminished by two impeachments and mounting legal vulnerabilities could hold a commanding position in a fractured, multi-candidate GOP primary.
“I fear it could end up the same way as 2016, which basically was everyone thought everyone else should get out,” said Republican strategist Mike DuHaime, who advised former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign that year. “I think every major candidate realized that he or she would have a better shot against Trump one-on-one. But of course each person thought he or she should be the one to get that shot and nobody got out of the way. ... And then it was too late.”
The anxiety is mounting as a growing list of potential rivals take increasingly brazen steps, delivering high-profile speeches, running ads, courting donors and making repeat visits to early voting states.
That group now includes upward of a dozen could-be-candidates, including Trump’s former Vice President, Mike Pence, his former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and Sens. Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Rick Scot, and Tim Scott, all of whom could run on the former president’s policies. In the anti-Trump lane, figures like Rep. Liz Cheney and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan are raising their profiles.
Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is increasingly seen as Trump’s heir apparent, even by the former president’s most loyal supporters, and viewed by Trump allies as his most formidable potential challenger.
While some, like former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, have said they will not challenge Trump if he does go forward with a run, others, like Christie, seem to be gunning for the fight, even if they seem to be longshot contenders.
“I’m definitely giving it serious thought. I’m not gonna make any decision probably until the end of the year,” Christie said in a recent interview.
“For me, it’s about the party needing to go in in a new direction from a personality perspective, and to continue to have someone who can bring strong leadership, tough leadership, that the country needs, but doesn’t have all of the other drama that goes along with it,” he said. “I’m hearing the same things from donors that I’m hearing from voters — that they’re very concerned that we can’t put ourselves in a position to have 2024 be about anything but the good of the country.”
Pompeo, who has had a busy travel schedule and plans to return to Iowa this summer, said in a recent interview that he has been spending time reading and listening to former President Ronald Reagan’s speeches as he prepares for a possible run.
“We’re getting ready to stay in the fight,” he said in an interview last month as he courted evangelical Christians at a gathering in Nashville, Tennessee.
He said he and his wife would sit down after the midterm elections and “think our way through it, pray our way through it, and decide where’s best to serve. It could be presenting ourselves for elected office again. We may choose a different path. But we’re not gonna walk away from these things that I’ve been working on for 30 years now. They matter too much.”
In the meantime, he sketched out a possible lane in much the same mold as Trump.
“He was a disruptor that was most necessary in 2016, there’s no doubt about that,” Pompeo said. And now the task is to take those set of understandings, those set of principles, and defend them and build upon them. And it’s gonna take a lot of work to do that, leaders of real fortitude and character to do that.”
The increasingly open talk comes as Trump faces a cascade of escalating legal troubles.
The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection has revealed increasingly damaging information about Trump’s final weeks in office, while the Department of Justice has launched its own sprawling probe. In Georgia, the prosecutor investigating Trump’s potentially illegal meddling in the state’s 2020 election last week ramped up her efforts by subpoenaing members of Trump’s inner circle. And in New York, Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have agreed to answer questions under oath beginning next week in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices.
Mick Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman who served as Trump’s acting White House chief of staff, said the moves suggested potential candidates “might see an opening where none existed two months ago.”
“Trump fatigue might be a real thing,” he said, with voters asking themselves whether, if they vote for another candidate, they “can get the same policies without all the baggage.”
At the same time, Trump has seen some of his endorsed primary candidates falter. Those who have won, including Ohio GOP Senate nominee JD Vance and Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Mehmet Oz, have done so with about 30% of the vote, meaning that two-thirds of party voters went against Trump’s picks.
“I don’t think anybody underestimates Trump. There’s a reason he’s the most sought-after endorsement in every single Republican primary,” said GOP strategist Alex Conant. “That said, I think there’s a recognition that a lot of Republican voters are looking to the future and ready for what’s next.”
To what extent remains an open question. During a trip to Iowa this week, Arkansas Sen. Cotton declined to weigh in on Trump’s standing. But he said he hoped to be “an effective national leader, not only for my party but for the American people in my role in the Senate and any other future role I might serve.”
Still, he argued, candidates should embrace Trump’s legacy.
“I know that Donald Trump is very popular among our voters who appreciate the successes he delivered for four years in a very hostile environment. They don’t want Republicans who are running against that legacy, because they view that legacy as a great success,” he said Thursday in Cambridge, Iowa.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to move forward with his own events.
On Friday night, he campaigned in Las Vegas alongside Adam Laxalt, his pick for Nevada Senate. And on Saturday night, he will hold a rally in Anchorage, Alaska, to campaign with Republican Kelly Tshibaka, whom he has endorsed in her race against U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and others, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is now running for Congress.
Conant said it made sense for candidates to continue testing the waters for now.
“A lot of potential candidates are realizing that 2024 may be their last best chance, regardless of what Trump does,” he said. “There’s a very vulnerable Democrat in the White House, Republicans seem likely to win, and if it’s not Trump, they’re basically sidelined for the next 10 years.”
Still, Conant, who served as communications director to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential bid, noted the similarities.
“It looks like it’s increasingly clear there’s going to be a lot of people running for president. And while I think there’s an appetite for something different, the alternative to Trump needs to coalesce around one candidate,” he said. “That never happened in 2016. And it might not happen in 2024.”
__ Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in New York and Tom Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-09T05:55:53+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2022/07/09/how-crowded-gop-field-could-help-trump-2024-campaign/ |
Peyton Cast ran the Best of the West Cross Country Meet in 16 minutes, 47.76 second to claim the individual title Thursday at the Executive Golf Course in Rapid City.
The Douglas junior beat out runner-up Trevor Thomsen of Rapid City Central, who finished in 16:58.00, while Sturgis duo Deron Graf and Morgan Papenfuss placed third and fourth, respectively, with times of 17:02.92 and 17:21.06.
Rapid City Central eighth grader Sheridan Madden claimed the girls event with a time of 19:53.29, while teammate Katelyn Beshera finished runner-up in 20:04.73. Kira Ubence of Douglas placed third in 20:20.48, and Brinna Sheldon placed fourth in 20:25.89.
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CROW CREEK 3, CRAZY HORSE 0: Crow Creek snapped a two-game slide with a win over Crazy Horse.
The Chieftains opened with a 25-14 win in the first, took the second 25-16 and finished it out with a 25-14 third.
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Crow Creek (3-13) will play at Menno on Saturday, while the Chiefs (2-12) host Little Wound on Monday.
BELLE FOURCHE 3, RED CLOUD 0: The Broncs won their fourth match in a row after sweeping the Crusaders.
Belle Fourche won the first set 25-10, cruised to a 25-3 victory in the second and closed it out with a 25-11 third.
No other information was made available for this match.
The Broncs (21-6) will host Pine Ridge on Saturday, while Red Cloud (7-14) hosts Sturgis.
RAPID CITY CHRISTIAN 3, GORDON-RUSHVILLE, NEB., 0: The Comets won their third straight with a victory over Gordon-Rushville, Nebraska on Tuesday.
Christian put the match away with 25-20, 25-23 and 25-13 victories.
No other information was made available for this game.
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(KTLA) — Taco lovers, October 4 is your day. And not just because it’s a Tuesday — it’s also National Taco Day.
Regardless of how you prefer your taco — meat or no meat, hard or soft shell, loaded with toppings or plain and simple — it’s safe to say you only want the best taco on National Taco Day.
While there are countless places to find a taco, analysts at Yelp have compiled a list of the 100 best taco spots in the U.S. based on ratings and recommendations from its community of reviewers. This includes restaurants, taquerias, cantinas and trucks — from Alaska to Florida and all points in between. There is even an interactive map to help you find Yelp’s top 100 taco spots.
Topping the list are three spots in California: Ed Fernandez Restaurant Birrieria in San Diego; Taco Nazo in Bellflower; and Taqueria Mi Ranchito in Sylmar.
Below are the 25 best taco spots in America based on Yelp reviews and ratings. The full list can be found here on Yelp’s website.
- Ed Fernandez Restaurant Birrieria, San Diego, California
- Taco Nazo, Bellflower, California
- Taqueria Mi Ranchito, Sylmar, California
- Granny’s Tacos, Austin, Texas
- Los Tacos No.1, New York, New York
- Tacos Sinaloa, Oakland, California
- El Primo Tacos, Venice, California
- Bajamar Seafood & Tacos, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Shaka Tacoz, Captain Cook, Hawaii
- Mami Coco, Dallas, Texas
- De Cabeza, Chula Vista, California
- Deckhand Dave’s Fish Tacos, Juneau, Alaska
- Jazzy’s Kitchen, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii
- Taqueria El Asador, Pensacola, Florida
- Mariscos Mi Gusto Es, San Diego, California
- Street Tacos and Grill, Los Angeles, California
- Tacos Jalisco, Key Largo, Florida
- Tranky’s Tacos, Garland, Texas
- El Chile Toreado, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Birrieria Little Tijuana, Riverside, California
- Cocina Madrigal, Phoenix, Arizona
- Edgewater Tacos, Chicago, Illinois
- Chicali Tacos, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Tacos Aya Yay, Lafayette, Colorado
- La Bamba Mexican Grill Restaurant, El Mirage, Arizona
In the mood for a taco? Yelp is also launching its first-ever Taco Trailblazer campaign, and the company is seeking people to join them on the road. The lucky few who are chosen for the job will be tasked with traveling to the best taco restaurants in the country, earning $20,000 along the way. | 2022-10-04T16:21:44+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/the-100-best-taco-spots-in-the-us-according-to-yelp-ratings/ |
Stars vs. Kraken: Betting Trends, Odds, Advanced Stats - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 2
Published: May. 4, 2023 at 8:46 AM CDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
Game 2 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Thursday will see the Dallas Stars and Seattle Kraken face off, beginning at 9:30 PM ET on TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Kraken are up 1-0. The Stars have -195 odds on the moneyline against the Kraken (+165).
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- When: Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
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- The Stars have compiled a 40-23 record when favored on the moneyline this season.
- Dallas has gone 18-6 when playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -195 or shorter (75.0% win percentage).
- The Stars have an implied moneyline win probability of 66.1% in this game.
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- In its last 10 games, Dallas has not gone over.
- In the last 10 games, the Stars have scored 1.4 more goals per game than their season average.
- The Stars score the seventh-most goals in the league, averaging 3.4 per game for a total of 281 this season.
- The Stars are ranked third in NHL play for the fewest goals against this season, having conceded 215 total goals (2.6 per game).
- The team's goal differential is fourth-best in the league at +66.
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MOUTH OF THE KLAMATH RIVER, California — Sheldon SmilingCoyote locked his eyes on the push and pull of the waves in front of him, suddenly slashing the tip of his handheld hook through the water, pulling out a slimy prehistoric fish.
Lassoing the lamprey over his head to keep it from squirming off the hook, he ran to a hole he’d dug in the sand and released the fish on a pile of its relatives. SmilingCoyote tallied two dozen in his catch on a late February day.
These nutrient-rich fish, a wintertime staple for the Yurok people, lost 400 miles of their historical spawning habitat to four dams that transformed the churning upper reaches of the Klamath River into slack water, threatening the lamprey and other native species. But that’s set to change.
This year, Yurok and Karuk tribal members began pressing the roots of native plants like Oregon ash and Klamath plum into the fluffy volcanic soil surrounding the Iron Gate Reservoir, some 200 miles east of the free-flowing water at the river’s mouth. It’s the first in a series of three pools that will be reverted to those lush flows when the dams are destroyed in what may be the nation’s largest planned dam removal project, already underway.
The Yurok and Karuk tribes have been connected to the Klamath River for thousands of years, but that relationship was disrupted by the construction of dams more than 100 years ago. Following the largest fish die-off in U.S. history, the tribes launched a decadeslong fight to remove the dams, a nearly complete effort that is poised to restore the lower Klamath River back to “the creator’s country.” Watch the short documentary below.
The Seattle Times traveled from the Klamath’s mouth, among the towering redwood forests of Northern California, through the ancestral lands of the Yurok, Karuk and Hupa, to the concrete dams set to come down and to the farmland and ranches the basin supports. The stories told along the way not only paint a picture of a decadeslong fight to restore a river’s flow and a way of life but also the distinct challenges of finding enough water to go around amid a changing climate. The dam’s removal won’t resolve a growing water crisis. Yet what happens on the Klamath has implications for dammed rivers across the American West.
The Indigenous people of the Klamath have worked from a blueprint drawn by the Northwest’s Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, which successfully fought for the removal of two dams on the Elwha River of the Olympic Peninsula. They seek to heal the damage done over the last 150 years of colonization. Restoring balance in the river could mean the return of food sovereignty and a repaired relationship with the land for a Salmon People.
It could serve as an example for the Salmon People of the Columbia Basin, who have been fighting for a similar future for the Snake River that once teemed with Chinook. But one bigger barrier stands in their way — the support of Congress.
In the West, a region plagued by drought, it’s a massive undertaking to bring back rivers’ historical flows. These freshwater highways are being sucked dry to support government-subsidized farms, cattle ranches and everything that remade the identity of these places.
While Indigenous people were promised the right to continue their subsistence life in exchange for their vast homelands, the federal government also promised settlers water to begin a new tradition: draining and filling wetlands to plant foreign crops, taming the rivers and valleys.
Now, a political tug-of-war is playing out in an attempt to mend broken promises.
In the coastal town of Klamath, at the westernmost edge of the Yurok Reservation, there are no grocery stores. Instead, there’s a gas station minimart that smells of evergreen-tree-shaped car air fresheners. Behind refrigerator doors are few meal options — Hot Pockets, frozen burritos and some TV dinners.
Here, the lamprey are known as “salvation fish.” After adult salmon have spawned and died off in the fall, the Yurok people rely on the long, ugly fish for sustenance in the winter months. SmilingCoyote learned to hook them when he was 5 and started making his way to the mouth of the river on his own as a 12-year-old.
“It’s just as important as anything else that swims in the river,” SmilingCoyote said. “Everything is valuable here. Even if it’s not edible, it’s sustainable to the earth. If this river was to ever dry up and go away, we wouldn’t be the people that we are. The river is everything.”
A century of strife
The Yurok creation story, in short, says the creator made the land, the water, the creatures and last, the Yurok people. If the people took care of the land, water and creatures, and never took more than they needed, they would always have enough.
Susan Masten’s grandmother lived in a redwood plank house overlooking the mouth of the Klamath, its boards now in a pile on the family’s property. She gathered roots and berries, fish and mussels.
Before colonizers trampled the Klamath watershed during the gold rush, the Yurok people had lived in this same area for tens of thousands of years and upheld their end of the creation-story bargain. But for years, “the only people bearing the burden of conservation were the Indian people on the river,” said Masten, former chair of the Yurok Tribe.
It was here in 1969 that California game wardens arrested her uncle, Raymond Mattz, and confiscated his and his friends’ gillnets. So began the fishing wars.
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the rights of Yurok people to fish on the reservation. A few years later, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife closed tribal fishing on the Klamath under the auspices of conservation while the sport and commercial fisheries carried on.
Intense clashes between protesters and federal officials ensued. Law enforcement agents wore bulletproof vests and helmets, Masten recalled. They rammed Yurok boats and ripped up nets. One officer told Masten they were there to “protect the salmon.”
The only thing that landed in the newspapers was the “Indians taking all the fish,” she recalled.
Bill Bowers, a Yurok elder and tribal court judge, learned to fish these waters when he was 5, just as SmilingCoyote did. In late February, he sat in The Historic Requa Inn, looking out as fat raindrops filled the teal, fast-moving Klamath just beyond the window pane. He wished he could instead tell his story from a boat.
Each year, the Bowers family heads to Brooks Riffle, a fishing hole named after their family.
Bowers recalled the fishing trips of his youth on the river, often riddled with misadventures: his tent catching fire, frightening encounters with bears and going to extreme lengths — fishing in the dark without flashlights — to avoid getting caught by law enforcement.
“The salmon that come in here … have been feeding the Yurok people’s genetics for thousands of years,” Bowers said. Their DNA is intrinsically linked, he said. That relationship, he added, should trump all other claimed rights to what the river provides; it’s something he raised his children to understand.
The dust began to settle on the fishing wars in the early ’80s when Bowers started a family.
“My introduction to Yurok country and my spirit coming here to this world was I just saw this great, beautiful fishery on this beautiful, fun river,” said his daughter, Amy Cordalis. “We were exploring the beach below my grandma’s house. There were ceremonies down there too. It was gorgeous and beautiful and felt safe and special.”
“There still was all that trauma there,” she said, of the fight over fishing rights. “But of course, as a kiddo, I didn’t really see that.”
When Cordalis came back to the reservation for a college internship with the tribe’s fisheries department in 2002, the river was teeming with Chinook.
Then, the Bush administration authorized a diversion of Klamath Lake water to irrigate farms in the basin, rather than feed the river. The administration reacting to a bucket-brigade protest led by farmers who were denied their usual water allocation a year earlier.
As Cordalis made her way down the river in an aluminum fisheries boat that year, she saw — and smelled — thousands of dead fish.
Fishers and environmental groups went to federal court in Oakland, Calif., saying the Bush administration gave too much water to farmers and ranchers at the risk of thousands of Chinook and coho, both threatened with extinction.
Several years later, a scientific report affirmed the salmon would have survived if managers had kept water in the river. It is still considered to be the biggest fish kill in U.S. history.
“I just remember being in a tribal fisheries boat and thinking: My great-grandmother is rolling over in her grave right now,” Cordalis said, “and I’ve got to do something about it. And I instantly thought, I’m going to go to law school and devote my life’s work, my life force to try to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again. And so that’s what I did.”
Cordalis had just begun practicing law as the negotiations on the Klamath intensified.
Yurok, Karuk, Hupa and Klamath people traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004 to tell Scottish Power shareholders what their hydroelectric dams were doing to California rivers and their fish. For many of the more than two dozen people in attendance, it was their first time on a plane.
When PacifiCorp, the company operating the Klamath dams, was sold to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, people from the Yurok, Karuk, Hoopa and Klamath nations descended on the headquarters in Omaha, Neb. They came back year after year.
In 2006, PacifiCorp’s licenses to operate the dams were set to expire, and company officials knew either costly fish passage would be needed or the dams would come down.
In the Klamath Basin, the aging structures could power fewer than 100,000 homes on a good day. They were never used for watering crops or drinking, so it made economic sense to remove the dams.
Cordalis, as the Yurok Tribe’s general counsel, in 2016 helped shepherd a landmark settlement agreement to remove the dams after a decade of negotiations among PacifiCorp, the states of California and Oregon, local and tribal governments, conservation groups and commercial and recreational fishing organizations.
The utility’s cost was capped at $200 million, with an additional $250 million from a California voter-approved water bond.
Signatories navigated the regulatory process from there, and in November 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the removal of the four dams making up the Klamath Hydroelectric Project. Dam removal is underway and will conclude in 2024, reopening 400 miles of habitat — much of which has been inaccessible for over a century.
When the dams fall
On an early March day, pickups blazed down crumbling county roads atop the sticky volcanic muck leading to two dams on the Klamath: Copco 1 and Copco 2. Trucks towed side-dump trailers around the winding bends dozens of feet above the glassy surface of the Iron Gate Reservoir.
Crews contracted by the dam removal nonprofit, a coalition of signatories of the amended Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement, were piecing together temporary housing and offices.
Steep rapids once carved through the canyon here. Now, power lines hum nearby. Copco 2 diverts the river through tunnels to a powerhouse about a mile and a half away. Copco 1, built in 1918, is the oldest dam on the Klamath and cut the river in half when it was built.
Upstream, the river hits the J.C. Boyle Dam, a roughly 60-foot diversion dam that dried up more than 4 miles of the river after it came online in 1958.
Below the Copco dams is Iron Gate, the lowest of the four dams set to come down. It stands 173 feet tall and is made of an iron-rich chalky rock that blends with nearby cliff sides. Below, the river returns to swirling flows, reminiscent of its formerly freed state.
In May, construction crews replaced 3,300 feet of drinking water line for the city of Yreka. Other pre-removal work includes installing a massive culvert at Fall Creek, placing a bridge over the river at Daggett Road, and drilling and blasting a 90-foot-long tunnel at the base of Copco 1.
By the end of September, Copco 2 will be gone.
J.C. Boyle, Copco 1 and Iron Gate will be removed simultaneously, and all of the dams’ bits and pieces will be trucked out or buried in the ground by the end of 2024. With a combined height of more than 400 feet, the Klamath dam removal would be the largest in the U.S.
The three reservoirs need to be drawn down simultaneously to limit the effects on salmon, according to planning documents. The four Klamath dams hold back about 15 million cubic yards of sediment. While the river will naturally flush much of that, crews will also dredge to make way for the sediment flows.
Observations from the late 1800s to early 1900s suggest an estimated 650,000 to 1 million adult salmon used to make the sprint from the mouth of the river to Upper Klamath Lake and beyond to spawn.
The river used to see more than 100,000 spring-run Chinook return each year, but in the past decade, fewer than 2,000 adults have made the annual trek back. Meanwhile, poor water quality as a result of low flows and warming water kills an estimated three-quarters of out-migrating young salmon on their way to the ocean.
The Yurok Tribe has not seen a profitable commercial fishery in more than a decade.
Removing the dams is only the first step in the restoration effort.
The next five years will be a delicate balance of human intervention and allowing the river to take its course, said Gwen Santos, lead ecologist on the Klamath River renewal project for Resource Environmental Solutions, the company tasked with the restoration and monitoring after the dams are gone.
While the focus of the project is fish passage in the river, Santos said, crews have been working since 2019 to create restoration plans. The Yurok Tribe hired Josh Chenoweth, the director of the revegetation effort for the Elwha dams, to clear the land of invasive plants.
Chenoweth and his crews have sown the rich soils with native grasses and flowers. Now, they’re reintroducing native buckbrush, serviceberry, Oregon ash and Klamath plum to the landscape.
More than 15 billion seeds are being cultivated in nurseries like BFI Native Seeds, a Moses Lake farm irrigated by the Columbia River.
The goal is to disperse nearly 17 billion native plants from more than 90 species across the 2,200 acres of newly exposed ground at the reservoirs. Crews from Resource Environmental Solutions and the tribes will restore some 22 miles of tributaries and river habitat.
They’ll take water quality samples, monitor stream velocity and mitigate as needed.
The downstream habitat is already falling into place as the Yurok Tribe has invested millions in recovering rearing habitat for young salmon. Each project has helped inform the recovery work around dam removal.
At the site of a former mill in the redwoods, a channeled creek has been restored to its historical meandering path, and a flood plain has been freed from asphalt and fill. Native trees and shrubs anchor the banks, and otters dive under logs as they twist and play in the stream’s churning waters.
Dams diverting rivers for hydropower, drinking water or to water crops were built before modern environmental laws and before tribal consultation was a consideration, so water allocations from these rivers are largely based on century-old compacts drawn up by white settlers. Now the effects of climate change have rendered many obsolete.
“We can’t manage water in the 21st century like we did in the 20th because there’s simply not as much water,” said Craig Tucker, environmental policy advocate for the Karuk Tribe.
Above the Klamath dams set for removal are irrigated lands that face an uncertain future, where choices over water use could determine the success of the Lower Klamath’s unprecedented restoration.
A future with less water
About a 20-mile drive down the highway from the J.C. Boyle Reservoir, a black heifer lying on her side in the dusty brown earth heaved a tiny head sticky with amniotic fluid from her birth canal.
She stood up, and a calf clumsily fell from her body onto the earth. She licked it clean.
It was calving season for Tim O’Connor, a third-generation rancher in the Klamath Basin. He separated the first-time mamas into one pasture and kept an eye on them as they went into labor for up to 10 hours. His only goal was ensuring they survive.
O’Connor’s grandfather left Ireland for the U.S. more than a century ago, and his family has been raising cattle since. But it’s getting increasingly hard to make a living, he said.
The hydropower dams are just one piece of the machine that settlers built from the Klamath. Upstream, two other dams were built and miles of irrigation canals were dug to feed thousands of acres of farmland.
Crops in the Klamath Basin were valued at about $200 million in 2019; that’s roughly 7% of the output of Washington’s Columbia Basin farms.
In the heat of the summer, a cow or bull needs about 1 gallon of water a day per 100 pounds of body weight. On average, that translates to 20 gallons per cow or 730,000 gallons of water to raise 100 cows for one year, not factoring in the water it takes to grow their food.
After an uncharacteristically wet winter, the federal Bureau of Reclamation allocated 260,000 acre-feet, or over 8 million gallons of water, from Upper Klamath Lake to be used for farms and ranches in the area this year.
Water allocations to farmers over the past year caused river flows to drop below requirements set by the Endangered Species Act for the first time since the 2002 fish kill, which left hundreds of salmon eggs exposed without water.
This spring’s allocation announcement is a little more than half of the historical demand from the Klamath Water Users Association, an agricultural lobbying group representing about 175 million acres of crops in the basin. Last year’s allocation was less than one-fourth of this year’s.
In April, officials voted unanimously to shut down California’s commercial and recreational salmon season. The decision was largely informed by alarmingly low salmon runs as a result of heavily dammed, diked and channeled streams struggling to maintain healthy flows in the face of droughts and warming summers.
“Our water challenges and shortages in the West are not driven by the Endangered Species Act or radical environmentalists or the deep state,” said U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., at a subcommittee meeting on water resources earlier this year. “In fact, the principal driving force is climate change. That’s, of course, the case with a historic drought in the West and other threats to our water supply.”
The Klamath has evolved to be a prime example of this.
Tracey Liskey’s family laid claim to 1,000 acres in the Klamath Basin in the early 1900s. Back then, it was a vast wetland.
When the Bureau of Reclamation dammed the river at Klamath Falls, it diverted some of the wetlands’ flow downriver, and the railroad tracks cut off the rest of the marshy basin. Around the 1920s, the valley was drained, and the Liskeys began building out their feedlot where they’d eventually grow hay for the hundreds of cattle roaming their acreage
On an early March day, Liskey’s boots kicked up dust as he led a tour of his property.
The land was dry.
The river was flowing at about 870 cubic feet per second below Iron Gate Dam, slightly lower than a year prior, despite the heavy rains and snow the region saw this winter.
In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation shut off the water to the farms and ranches in the basin for the first time. For Liskey, it was a life-changing moment.
“My son had just graduated … and decided he better go find a job he could afford or that maybe could support him and the family,” he said. “We have nobody else to take over the ranch.“
Now, he rents pieces of his land to other young farmers and ranchers. If you came to Liskey’s, or any other Klamath Basin farm 20, 30, or 40 years ago, the people would probably look the same. But today, Liskey’s property is divided into small subplots.
Liskey, clad in a flannel shirt and Wrangler jeans, led a tour of his farm in a pickup, swinging in and out of the cab while holding a handle above the door.
Steam spilled out as he opened the door to one of the many greenhouses on his property. Inside, pink, orange and tan fish, each no bigger than a slice of bread, gasped at the surface of their burbling tanks filled with water from a natural geothermal hot spring under Liskey’s land.
These tilapia will soon be scooped out and shipped off to grocery stores. Nearby, tomatoes, onions and herbs grow in soil enriched with the tilapias’ waste.
Liskey’s land is a hodgepodge of geothermal energy production, greenhouses full of exotic plants, vegetables and fish, and some traditional feedlots and cattle pastures.
As farmers are forced to sell off bits of their less-profitable lands, the agriculture in the basin might look a bit more like this.
Water will certainly be harder to come by, but it still links the basin and the lamprey fishing grounds hundreds of miles away and nourishes the futures of animals and humans alike. | 2023-06-11T13:55:23+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/the-massive-dam-removal-on-the-klamath-may-save-salmon-but-cant-solve-the-wests-water-crisis/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
GRAPHIC: Woman suffers shark bite during family vacation: ‘There was a shark on my arm’
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) - A Pennsylvania woman is recovering after suffering a shark bite while vacationing in South Carolina.
The Sites family said they were just starting their vacation in Myrtle Beach when their trip took a shocking turn.
“I felt something bite me. I looked down and there was a shark on my arm,” Karen Sites said. “I was only in the water up to my waist, and I kept pushing at it until it let go.”
Karen Sites’ grandson, 8-year-old Brian Sites, said he was nearby when the shark bite happened.
“I couldn’t even see the shark coming up; it jumped up,” Brian Sites said. “I saw the movement of its tail and then it went back into the water.”
Karen Sites said she was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery before receiving hundreds of stitches.
“It’s very clearly a shark bite when you look at the arc of the tooth marks and the damage,” said Daniel Abel, professor of marine science at Coastal Carolina University. “My sympathies to the victim. That’s a horrendous thing to go through.”
Abel said shark bites are rare, but shark sightings are not uncommon this time of year and beachgoers should take some precautions.
“Don’t swim at dawn or dusk. There are not many people in the water and some sharks are closer to the shoreline for feeding,” Abel said. “Don’t swim where there are schools of small fish or near where people are fishing.”
Sites said her shark encounter would not keep her from enjoying the beach in the future as she continues her recovery.
Copyright 2022 WPDE via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-20T00:11:42+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/08/19/graphic-woman-suffers-shark-bite-during-family-vacation-there-was-shark-my-arm/ |
(The Hill) – President Biden’s approval rating hit 40 percent during the month of August in a new Quinnipiac University poll, a 9-point spike from just one month ago.
The new poll, published on Thursday, found that 40 percent of respondents approve of the job Biden is doing in the Oval Office, rising from the 31 percent low approval rating he received from Americans in the same poll in July.
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of the job Biden is doing as president.
Along party lines, 83 percent of respondents who identified as Democrats said they approve of the job Biden is doing, an 11 point increase from last month’s poll.
Ninety-two percent of Republican respondents said they disapprove of the job Biden is doing, while 55 percent of Independent respondents also disapproved.
When asked about Biden’s handling of current issues, 50 percent of respondents approve of Biden’s approach toward the COVID-19 pandemic, and 44 percent of respondents approve of his approach toward climate change.
Twenty-seven percent of respondents approve of Biden’s approach to the situation at the Mexican border, the lowest reading he has received in the questionnaire, the poll said.
The poll comes as Biden and his administration have seen a slew of legislative victories in the past month which includes the passing of his climate, health care, and tax package and his announcement last week of his administration’s initiative to cancel student loan debt for millions of Americans.
Fifty-three percent of respondents approve of the administration’s plan to cancel some student loan debt for many Americans, while 43 percent of those surveyed disapprove of the new initiative.
The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted from August 25-29 with a total of 1,419 respondents. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. | 2022-09-01T16:14:16+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/biden-approval-rating-up-9-points-since-july/ |
It's been more than a week since the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, but the devastating effects continue to grow.
The short-term dangers are still unfolding, visible in both footage from the ground and from space with satellite imagery.
Downstream, houses, businesses, and farmland are drowning in the floodwaters unleashed by the destroyed dam.
Thousands of people and animals alike have been forced to abandon their homes.
Nature conservation areas bordering the flooded river have been completely submerged.
Satellite images reveal that areas upstream from the dam are also impacted, such as the massive Kakhovka Reservoir, which has rapidly drained to historically low levels.
The bottom of the reservoir is now visible in the satellite imagery.
That means important water canals linked to the reservoir are no longer able to pull in water for farmland irrigation.
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In some areas the flooding has started to recede, revealing more of the damage from this disaster.
Experts say the long-term impacts could last for generations to come.
In some cases, hazardous industrial facilities are dangerously close to the Dnipro River, and within reach of floodwaters from the dam.
Water damage to these facilities could wreak untold havoc on the surrounding areas and locations downstream.
Some of the most serious concerns are environmental.
But the floodwaters have washed up some dangerous scenarios for a country in the midst of a bloody war.
Water has uprooted landmines, torn through stockpiles of weapons and ammunition, and saturated sites like gas stations and chemical storage sites with water.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-15T03:28:18+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/a-week-after-a-ukrainian-dam-was-destroyed-effects-still-reverberate |
If you're feeling a bit brain-fogged these days, you might not be wrong to blame it on the heat.
Several summers back, researchers in Boston studied young adults living in college dorm rooms during a heat wave. Some had central AC, and slept at a cool 71 degrees Fahrenheit. But others slept in rooms without air-conditioning, where the temperature hovered around 80 degrees.
Each morning for nearly two weeks the students took a few tests, administered on their cell phones. The people who slept in the hotter dorm rooms performed measurably worse on the tests.
The tests included a math test requiring simple addiction and subtraction and a second test, the Stroop test, that jumbles colors and words. "So, if I show the word 'red' in the color blue, participants have to respond 'blue'," says study author Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health.
It's easy to get tripped up if your attention or reaction time is slowed, he says, and that's exactly what heat appears to be doing. "The magnitude of the effect was really striking," Cedeño Laurent says. "We saw reductions in the order of 10% in their response times and also their accuracy."
Part of this effect may be explained by interrupted sleep. It can be hard to get a good night's rest if you're not accustomed to the heat, and a lack of sleep could certainly impair reaction time and focus. But there's a body of evidence suggesting it may be something about the heat itself that interferes with cognition.
A similar study published in 2021 also documented a dip in cognitive performance at air temps of 79 degrees. Researchers found that as the temperature rose, activity in the parasympathetic nervous system, the anti-stress system that can help us stay calm and relaxed, was lowered. Plus oxygen saturation levels in the blood were lower at the elevated temperatures as well, which the researchers said could be expected to result in reduced cognitive performance.
Other studies have found an effect from heat on office workers and on standardized test score performance, says Caleb Dresser, an emergency medicine physician who also serves as the director of health care solutions at the Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health and Global Environment.
One of these studies showed that productivity in the workplace is highest when the air temperature is about 72 degrees, and productivity starts to drop off in the mid-70s. And another shows that for high school students, taking a standardized test on a hot day is linked to poorer performance.
Dresser says the evidence suggests that heat can influence us in sometimes indiscernible ways. "All of these [studies] seem to point to a reduced ability to think clearly and quickly and efficiently when the body is too hot," he says.
There's also research to suggest that heat can make you moodier or irritated, in part, perhaps, by raising cortisol levels, and inducing a stress response.
Of course, you can acclimate to heat after several days of exposure, and our bodies have several built-in coping mechanisms that help us cool down. For instance, you'll begin to sweat sooner and blood flow to the skin increases, which can carry heat away from the body's core.
But, given the extreme heat waves that are becoming more common, there's increasing interest in better understanding the mechanisms by which heat may exacerbate or set off mood and anxiety-related problems. Dresser points to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2022 that found hospital ER visits, for mental health conditions, rise during extremely hot days.
"I think this is consistent with what a lot of physicians will tell you if they have worked during hot conditions," Dresser says. Mental health is a concern all of the time, "but it can become a bigger concern during really hot conditions," he says.
Multiple factors likely explain how heat exacerbates the risks, beyond changes in stress hormones and sleep disturbances. Dresser points out that there's an overlap between populations who are vulnerable to mental health issues and populations that are unhoused or have intermittent access to housing.
And, clearly, if someone is living outside during a heat wave, there's a greater likelihood of significant impact. "There may be complicated social issues going on," he says.
A better understanding of all of these factors could help inform strategies to prevent or manage the challenges. "As we learn to live in a warming world where the summers are getting hotter, we need to be extra alert to recognize when conditions are dangerous and take steps to stay safe," Dresser says.
One of the key strategies is to stay well hydrated. This may sound obvious, but dehydration is common in the summer, and many people underestimate how much fluid they need to replace when they're sweating a lot or spending time outdoors.
In fact, the participants in the college dorm study benefited from staying well-hydrated. During the study, the researchers sent text messages asking all the participants how much liquid they'd consumed, and it turned out that the participants who slept in the hot dorm rooms, and drank less than 6 glasses of liquid per day, performed worse on the tests. And prior research has shown that being even a little dehydrated can impair cognitive performance.
It's a reminder that a simple step – remembering to drink plenty of water – can help protect not just our physical health, but our mental wellbeing, too.
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- Selected a potential first-in-class Pol Theta Helicase development candidate in collaboration with GSK
- Observed complete responses in preclinical combination studies of Pol Theta Helicase DC with niraparib in multiple in vivo PDX and CDX HRD models
- Targeting first-in-human clinical evaluation of Pol Theta Helicase DC combination with niraparib in H1 2023 for patients having tumors with HRD
- Potential to receive up to $960 million in aggregate milestones from GSK, including up to $485 million in aggregate development and regulatory milestones and up to $475 million in aggregate commercial sales milestones
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDYA), a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics, announced selection of a potential first-in-class Pol Theta Helicase development candidate (DC).
The Pol Theta Helicase DC is a potential first-in-class small molecule inhibitor of the helicase domain of DNA Polymerase Theta. IDEAYA is collaborating with GSK on IND-enabling studies to support the evaluation of the Pol Theta Helicase DC in combination with niraparib, GSK's PARP inhibitor, for patients having tumors with BRCA or other homologous recombination (HR) mutations or homologous recombination deficiency (HRD).
"We are excited about potential clinical development opportunities for this potential first-in-class Pol Theta Helicase inhibitor. Pol Theta promotes DNA repair by Microhomology-Mediated End-Joining (MMEJ), an error-prone mutagenic DNA repair pathway, which is active in BRCA mutant and other HRD cancer cells. PARP1 is also involved in MMEJ DNA repair, supporting a hypothesis for synergistic combination of our Pol Theta Helicase DC with niraparib," said Michael White, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of IDEAYA Biosciences.
"The development candidate has demonstrated robust in vivo efficacy in combination with niraparib, with significant tumor regressions and durable responses in multiple cancer models. We believe the Pol Theta helicase and niraparib combination has the opportunity to deliver meaningful patient benefit," said Benjamin Schwartz, Ph.D., Vice President, Head of Oncology Synthetic Lethality Research Unit at GSK.
IDEAYA and GSK are targeting an IND submission for the Pol Theta Helicase DC, subject to satisfactory completion of ongoing preclinical and IND-enabling studies, to enable first-in-human studies in the first half of 2023.
IDEAYA and GSK are collaborating on the ongoing IND-enabling studies, and GSK will lead clinical development for the Pol Theta program. GSK holds a global, exclusive license to develop and commercialize the Pol Theta Helicase DC and is responsible for all research and development costs for the program, including those incurred by IDEAYA. IDEAYA is eligible to receive future development and regulatory milestones of up to $485 million aggregate, inclusive of preclinical and clinical milestones of up to $10 million aggregate for advancing this asset through IND effectiveness.
Upon potential commercialization, IDEAYA will be eligible to receive up to $475 million of commercial milestones and tiered royalties on global net sales by GSK, its affiliates and their sublicensees ranging from high single digit to sub-teen double digit percentages, subject to certain customary reductions.
IDEAYA is a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics for patient populations selected using molecular diagnostics. IDEAYA's approach integrates capabilities in identifying and validating translational biomarkers with drug discovery to select patient populations most likely to benefit from its targeted therapies. IDEAYA is applying its research and drug discovery capabilities to synthetic lethality – which represents an emerging class of precision medicine targets.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements related to (i) the timing of IND submission and first-in-human clinical evaluation of Pol Theta Helicase DC combination with niraparib and (ii) the potential receipt of GSK milestone payments. Such forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause IDEAYA's preclinical and clinical development programs, future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainties inherent in the drug development process, including IDEAYA's programs' early stage of development, the process of designing and conducting preclinical and clinical trials, the regulatory approval processes, the timing of regulatory filings, the challenges associated with manufacturing drug products, IDEAYA's ability to successfully establish, protect and defend its intellectual property, the effects on IDEAYA's business of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and other matters that could affect the sufficiency of existing cash to fund operations. IDEAYA undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of IDEAYA in general, see IDEAYA's recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 10, 2022 and any current and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson hosted his first ideas summit in Bentonville on Wednesday, aimed at tackling national issues.
“America Leads: An Ideas Summit” brought together names like former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Tom and Steuart Walton, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Republican nominee for Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The summit covered the topics of education, national security, diplomacy and entrepreneurship. Gov. Hutchinson said he wanted the summit to be a Middle America discussion.
“Bentonville, of course, is a unique place,” Hutchinson said. “It is a showcase place for Arkansas in terms of the industry that comes here, the technology that’s here, and the museums that are here, and so it’s really great to be able to bring people from out of state here.”
Gov. Hutchinson said he hoped the summit would lead the way to tackle issues that impact Americans.
“I want to be a voice for optimism about America, about the leadership role that we play, about solving the challenges of energy production and inflation,” Hutchinson said.
Gov. Hutchinson said his focus is on the midterm elections now, and he’ll have to see what next year brings in terms of a 2024 presidential run. | 2022-10-20T02:44:30+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/gov-hutchinson-hosts-first-ideas-summit/ |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Roger Federer did make his way to Wimbledon this year, after all — not to compete, mind you, but to take part in a ceremony marking the centenary of Centre Court on Sunday — and declared his intention to try to return in 2023 with a racket in hand.
“Just tried to be successful here and represent the sport well. I hope I did that,” said Federer, who won a men’s-record eight of his 20 Grand Slam titles at the All England Club and was greeted with a standing ovation. “And I hope I can come back … one more time.”
Instead of the mandatory all-white playing uniform, Federer wore a dark suit and tie, his purple Wimbledon member’s badge pinned to a jacket lapel. The Swiss star, who turns 41 on Aug. 8 and has been sidelined for a year by knee problems, was among more than two dozen winners of singles championships at the grass-court tournament who appeared in the main stadium during a 35-minute tribute to a stadium that opened in 1922.
“I’ve been lucky enough to play a lot of matches on this court. Feels awkward to be here today in a different type of role,” said Federer, who had participated in every Wimbledon since his main-draw debut in 1999. “But it’s great to be here with … all the other champions. This court has given me my biggest wins, my biggest losses.”
His last match anywhere came on July 7, 2021, when he lost at Centre Court in the quarterfinals to Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-0. Soon after, Federer had surgery to repair damage to his meniscus and cartilage in his right knee — his third operation on that knee in a span of 1 1/2 years.
Federer has said he plans to return to tournament action at the Swiss Indoors in October.
“Of course I’ve missed being here. I would have loved to be here. I knew walking out here last year, it was going to be a tough year ahead. Maybe didn’t think it was going to take me this long to come back. But the knee has been rough on me,” he told the crowd. “I didn’t know if I should make the trip, but I’m happy standing right here, right now.”
The whole scene was, in some respects, an infomercial for the Grand Slam event itself.
There were gauzy videos — three in all — quips from co-hosts Sue Barker and John McEnroe, performances by Cliff Richard, who used to help kill time by singing during rain delays (a thing of the past, now that Centre Court and No. 1 Court are outfitted with retractable roofs), and Freya Ridings, who sang the 2017 ballad “Lost Without You” while accompanying herself on a white piano placed on the grass near some front-row seats.
Past champions on hand included some still in the brackets this year, such as Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep in singles, and Venus Williams in mixed doubles.
When it was his turn with the microphone, Djokovic joked: “Gosh, I feel more nervous than when I’m playing.”
The six-time winner was scheduled to be be out there on Centre Court in the fourth round later, which was unusual in its own right: This is the first time in history that the tournament was scheduled as a 14-day event, with play planned for the middle Sunday. Previously, that was set aside as a day off, and only on four occasions — in 1991, 1997, 2004 and 2016 — did a backlog of matches created by too much rain lead organizers to add matches on that Sunday.
Andy Murray, whose 2013 Wimbledon singles trophy was the first for a British man in 77 years, Angelique Kerber and Petra Kvitova were other active players present. And there were big names from yesteryear, too, of course: Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Chris Evert, Bjorn Borg — he and McEnroe, fierce rivals in the 1980s, hugged each other — Stefan Edberg and Goran Ivanisevic.
Also listed by the club as attending: the son of Leslie Godfree, who delivered the first serve in the first match at Centre Court in 1922, and the grandson of Algernon Kingscote, Godfree’s opponent that day.
Absent were three of the winningest players in tournament history: Martina Navratilova (who tested positive for COVID-19 and wrote on Twitter she was “gutted” to miss the occasion), Serena Williams and Pete Sampras. Navratilova’s nine singles championships are a Wimbledon record; Williams, who lost in the first round last week, and Sampras, who retired in 2002, each won it seven times.
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Ohio woman attacked by shark at Daytona Beach Shores, officials say
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - Volusia Beach Safety reported that a presumable shark attacked a 40-year-old woman from Ohio on Saturday in Daytona Beach Shores.
According to Beach Safety, at 1:12 p.m. m., the woman was submerged in water up to her waist when the animal bit her on the lower part of her left leg.
Volusia Beach officials said her injuries were not life-threatening and the woman was transported to the hospital by EVAC for treatment.
Beach Safety rescued four people Saturday from the ocean. | 2022-07-17T00:15:29+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/ohio-woman-attacked-by-shark-at-daytona-beach-shores-officials-say |
Michael Jordan donates $10M to Make-A-Wish for 60th birthday
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan is celebrating his 60th birthday on Friday by making a $10 million donation to Make-A-Wish.
It is the largest donation ever received from an individual in the organization’s 43-year history.
Jordan’s hope is that his decision to celebrate his birthday by donating to Make-A-Wish will inspire others to help fulfill the wishes of the kids still waiting for their wishes to come true.
“For the past 34 years, it’s been an honor to partner with Make-A-Wish and help bring a smile and happiness to so many kids,” Jordan said in a news release. “Witnessing their strength and resilience during such a tough time in their lives has truly been an inspiration.”
Jordan, now the owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets, first supported Make-A-Wish in 1989.
He has granted hundreds of wishes to children all over the world and remains one of the most requested celebrity wish-granters. He was named Make-A-Wish Chief Wish Ambassador in 2008 for what the organization called the “life-changing impacts he has had on wish kids and their families.”
“I can’t think of a better birthday gift than seeing others join me in supporting Make-A-Wish so that every child can experience the magic of having their wish come true,” Jordan said.
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How do you tune a ukulele?
The ukulele is a wonderful instrument for anyone of any skill level to take up. If you are a beginner, a ukulele is an affordable entry-level musical instrument that can provide a great deal of satisfaction. If you are an accomplished musician, it is versatile enough to let you display your virtuosity.
However, before learning to play, you must first learn how to tune the instrument. Don’t worry. It’s not as hard as it sounds. By following a concise set of steps, you’ll be ready to play in minutes.
Is a ukulele hard to play?
A ukulele only has four strings. Often, especially for beginners, these strings are made of nylon. Nylon strings are much kinder on the fingertips. The skill and dexterity needed to produce satisfying results can be achieved without a great deal of effort. It might not be easy to master a ukulele, but it is easy to get started. This makes the ukulele an extremely accessible instrument, even for people who have never played any other instrument before.
Benefits of a ukulele
There are many important physical, mental and emotional benefits that come from learning how to play a musical instrument. These benefits may include enhancing fine motor skills, increasing concentration, reducing stress and more.
However, a ukulele has a few advantages that may make it better for you than other instruments. For instance, its smaller size makes it extremely portable — you can take it on a plane or carry it with you when camping. It is an affordable and fun instrument that can be played by young children and seniors, and it does not require a power source. Best of all, the ukulele is a social instrument. After you learn just a few chords, you can entertain or provide the backing for a singalong.
Why do you need to learn how to tune your ukulele?
If your ukulele is not in tune, the songs you play might not be recognizable. With a piano, you can call a tuner out a couple of times each year to tune the instrument and trust that it will remain in tune for several months. A ukulele needs to be tuned every time you play it. In some situations, you will need to tune your ukulele before each song. If you took a ukulele into a store and paid to have it tuned, chances are, by the time you got it home, it would already be out of tune. This is why you need to learn how to tune it yourself.
What makes a ukulele go out of tune?
Many factors make a ukulele go out of tune. All of them are out of your control, so you don’t have to worry or feel bad that you frequently need to tune your ukulele. Here are some reasons a ukulele can go out of tune:
- Weather: Changing humidity plays a large factor in the ability of an instrument to stay in tune.
- Temperature: A temperature change will also cause an instrument to go out of tune.
- Change in environment: Moving your instrument from indoors to outdoors, or vice versa, will normally involve a change in temperature and humidity. As noted, both of these changes will make an instrument go out of tune.
- Change in altitude: If you are flying with your instrument, you will need to tune it after landing.
- Travel: Whether carrying your instrument by hand or placing it in a storage compartment, the jostling that occurs during travel can make your instrument lose its tune.
- Playing the instrument: Simply playing your ukulele is enough to make it go out of tune.
What is a tuner?
A tuner is a small battery-powered device that fits in the palm of your hand. This device either clips on your ukulele or is held close enough to the instrument so it can measure the frequency of the sound waves. Each string on a ukulele produces a very specific frequency. The tuner notifies you when each string of the ukulele is producing the right note. This may be done via a meter, lights, a sound or some combination of these elements. When all four strings are producing the right frequency, the instrument is in tune.
How does twisting a tuning peg affect the tuning of a ukulele string?
When you twist a tuning peg on a ukulele in a certain direction, it reduces the tension on the string. When this happens, the frequency is reduced — you get a lower pitch. Conversely, when twisting the tuning peg in the opposite direction, the string gets more tension and the pitch gets higher. Which direction you twist the pegs to reduce or increase tension varies by instrument. By slowly and smoothly twisting a tuning peg and watching the display on the tuner, even a beginner can achieve perfect tuning on their first try.
Tuning a ukulele: step by step
Tuning a ukulele with a tuner is simple: All you need to know are which pitches you are aiming for. When holding a ukulele with the neck and headstock to the player’s left, the string furthest from the floor should be tuned to G (above middle C on the piano). This is called the fourth string. The next string (string three) should be tuned to a C (middle C on the piano). The last two strings (strings two and one) are E and A (above middle C) respectively. When tuning a ukulele, remember that C (the third string) is the lowest note on the instrument.
These are the steps you need to take to tune a ukulele:
- Silence all strings.
- Pluck only the string you are tuning.
- Watch the tuner for a couple of seconds to let the pitch settle — the force of your pluck can give a false reading.
- Make the necessary adjustments (turn the tuning peg clockwise or counter-clockwise).
- Pluck the string again and check the tuning.
- When you get it right, move on to the next string.
As you become more advanced, you will be able to pluck and adjust the tuning peg while watching the tuner to accomplish the task much faster.
What you need to buy to tune a ukulele
Cordoba Guitars Concert Ukulele
If you need a ukulele, this well-made mahogany model offers a bright, rich sound. This elegantly designed instrument features a satin finish and silver tuners with pearl buttons.
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Korg CA-2 Chromatic Tuner
A chromatic tuner lets you tune any instrument. This compact model from Korg will let you experiment with alternative tunings once you become a more advanced player.
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Fender FT-2 Professional Clip-On Tuner
For convenience, this Fender tuner clips onto the headstock of your instrument, so it is always on hand when needed. It features a ukulele mode, and the colorful LCD screen allows you to easily see when your instrument is in tune.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ROME (AP) — The German Catholic Church's reform process is again under fire from the Holy See, with a Vatican cardinal seemingly comparing its proposals for theological development to the thinking that sustained Germany's Nazi era.
The furor launched by Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch, who heads the Holy See's office for Christian unity, marks the latest criticism of the German attempt to pursue reforms as a response to the clergy sex abuse scandal and the hemorrhaging of Catholic faithful.
Koch suggested in an interview with German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost last week that the German reform process was seeking to introduce new sources of divine revelation, beyond Scripture and Christian tradition, to justify theological change.
He said it was the same thing some pro-Nazi Protestants did when they "saw God’s new revelation in blood and soil and in the rise of Hitler.”
His comments sparked outrage among German bishops who, along with German Catholic laity, are pursuing a long-term reform process known as the Synodal Path. Limburg Bishop Georg Baetzing, the head of the German bishops' conference, demanded that Koch retract the statement but the cardinal refused. The two met Tuesday at the Vatican on a previously scheduled visit.
In a statement Wednesday, the German conference said Koch assured Baetzing that he didn’t intend to compare the current process to the Nazi era.
“Cardinal Koch apologized to anyone who felt offended by the comparison he made,” the conference said in a statement. It said Koch and Baetzing agreed that “the theological debate the cardinal wanted to contribute to in the interview must be continued.”
Koch’s office didn’t immediately respond to calls and emails seeking additional comment.
The “Synodal Path” has sparked fierce resistance inside Germany, in the Vatican and beyond, primarily from conservatives opposed to opening any debate on issues such as priestly celibacy, women’s role in the church and homosexuality.
Some have openly warned of schism. The German bishops have pushed back saying that if they don’t change, the German church will continue to lose faithful – some 360,000 German Catholics formally left the church last year.
While Pope Francis has encouraged debate on such issues and is himself pursuing a process of greater dialogue with the laity, he appears skeptical or ambivalent at best about the German process, and has repeatedly put the brakes on it or allowed others to do so for him.
An unsigned Vatican statement this past summer warned the German church against any effort to impose new moral or doctrinal norms on the faithful on hot-button issues, saying doing so “would represent a wound to the ecclesial union and a threat to the unity of the church.”
Such moves have angered the German Catholic leadership, which sees the Synodal Path as a crucial way of regaining trust after a groundbreaking 2018 report into decades of clergy sexual abuse found systemic problems in the way power had been exercised by the all-male Catholic hierarchy.
Baetzing and the conference leadership were in Rome this week preparing the groundwork for a visit by all German bishops to the Holy See next month. Unlike normal visits, when bishops meet as a group with individual prefects of Holy See offices, the Germans are expected to meet with several Vatican prefects at the same time, along with the pope. | 2022-10-05T12:59:37+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Vatican-cardinal-cites-Nazi-theology-in-German-17488179.php |
Wichita used car dealership fined $159K for violating Kansas Consumer Protection Act
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A former used car dealership in Wichita and its owners face a fine of more than $159,000 and can no longer legally sale cars in Kansas after violating the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said.
The DA’s office said its Consumer Protection Division investigated iDeal Enterprises, LLC (doing business as iDeal Motors) and the dealership’s owners, Adam and Andrea Newbrey. The investigation followed consumer complaints on the dealership, formerly located in the 4400 block of South Broadway.
The Consumer Protection Division reported receiving two complaints after the dealership failed to provide titles to buyers.
“During the investigation, the Consumer Protection Division discovered in one transaction the [dealership] sold a consumer scrap vehicle without being properly licensed, used an unlicensed salesperson on the transaction, willfully withheld from the buyer that the vehicle was a scrap vehicle, and falsely told the buyer the vehicle was a salvage vehicle,” the Sedgwick County DA’s Office said.
With the second complaint, the DA’s office said the dealership sold a vehicle with open safety recalls and didn’t disclose them with the buyer.
“In both transactions, defendants failed to deliver title within 60 days and issued multiple 60-day temporary registration permits in violation of Kansas law,” the DA’s office said.
The DA’s office said in 2019, iDeal Enterprises and Adam Newbrey entered a consent judgment in which they promised to make a good-faith effort to resolve new consumer complaints.
“The Consumer Protection Division alleged the dealership and Newbrey willfully failed to cooperate with the investigation,” the DA’s office said.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany won’t achieve its targets for phasing out fossil fuels and ramping up renewable energy by 2030 with the measures currently in place, according to a think tank report released Wednesday.
The respected German Institute for Economic Research, or DIW, examined the goals that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government set itself since coming to power last year following an election campaign in which combating climate change was one of the biggest issues.
Their economists calculated that the current roll-out of electric vehicles, solar and wind energy won’t be fast enough to reach those targets.
The government’s goal of putting 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030 would require 130,000 such vehicles to be registered every month — up from 30,000 at present. The speed at which solar panels are installed would need to triple compared with the rate seen in the past year, while the erection of wind turbines needs to quadruple, the report found.
“If the government doesn’t want to fall behind on achieving its goals then it needs to implement concrete and far-reaching steps soon,” said Wolf-Peter Schill, an energy economist at the Berlin-based DIW. | 2022-07-06T12:14:58+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/economists-current-measures-wont-meet-german-energy-goals/ |
Commercial and large residential building permits issued by the city of Tyler:
TDR Contractors Inc., 3820 Hwy. 64, commercial mechanical alterations, $122,000
Tennison, David Construction, 6205 S. Broadway Avenue, commercial new restaurant, $400,000
Bravo Homes & Construction, 322 E. Southeast Loop 323, commercial finish out, $39,870
SC Architecture LP., 1400 W. Southwest Loop 323, commercial remodel/renovation, $350,000
Segreene Construction & Design, 111 E. Erwin St., commercial remodel/renovation, $12,000
Paragon Construction & Associates LLC., 12557 Spur 364, commercial remodel/renovation, $356,549
Angie Reed Construction & Design, 1310 Canopy Park, residential new, $1,100,000
Runnels Homes, 2223 Cherryhill Circle, residential new, $600,000
Aire Service of Smith Co., 3215 Old Jacksonville Highway, commercial mechanical alterations, $50,342.39
East Texas Refrigeration Co., 2520 Oak Manor, commercial mechanical new, $60,000
Gold Mine Construction LLC., 7038 Hillside Avenue, temporary plumbing/gas, $324,999
Mosby Mechanical Co. Inc., 800 E. Dawson St., commercial mechanical alterations | 2023-06-27T11:42:31+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/news/business/building-permits-june-15-22-2023/article_9446d65a-1152-11ee-8101-0b58c0ce53d9.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — May is all about speed in Indy, but we decided to slow it down for a few by hanging out with the pokiest creatures out there, tortoises.
Amazon John of Silly Safaris introduced us to some of his tortoise friends, large and small, and taught us a few fun facts about these slow-mo reptiles.
We met Tonka, a 45-pound preteen tortoise from Africa who will grow to 200 or 300 pounds in his lifetime. He’s an herbivore, so Amazon John brought him a nice salad and a banana to snack on.
People often take in turtles like Tonka as pets when they’re young, not realizing how big they will get, then eventually have to find them a new home.
Amazon John also brought a much smaller red-footed tortoise named Shelby that’s 30-40 years old and fully grown. (She’s from Shelbyville, in case you were wondering.)
He cleared up the difference between tortoises and turtles, too, for anyone who was unsure like us. Tortoises live only on the land, while turtles live mostly in the water. | 2022-05-19T21:41:37+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indy-now/silly-safaris-tortoises/ |
The Ukrainian history of 'Carol of the Bells'
"Carol of the Bells" is one of the most recognizable Christmas songs on Earth, and we have Ukraine to thank for giving "Christmas magic to the world."
According to the Ukraine government website, "Carol of the Bells" was not a carol: It was "Shchedryk," a four-note melody dating back to the pre-Christian era that Ukrainians sang in the spring when swallows returned from their winter migration. The song was part of New Year celebrations meant to bless each other with a prosperous harvest.
Centuries later, in 1916, Ukrainian conductor and composer Mykola Leontovych heard the simple tune and turned it into "a choral masterpiece." It premiered at the Kyiv Philharmonic in December that same year.
In 1918, Ukraine declared independence from the Russian Empire, but the newly formed government "had to fight" for recognition in the international community. The new head of state decided to use the power of song as a tool for diplomacy, directing Oleksandr Hoshyts to assemble a choir of 100 singers for a European tour.
The choir was trying to get to Paris, where world leaders were meeting for the Paris Peace Conference to redraw European borders following World War I. Ukraine’s leader hoped the choir would help them gain formal recognition — and also fuel international support for Ukraine’s fight against Bolshevik Russia.
Ukraine’s choir was able to leave Kyiv on Feb. 4, 1919, a day before Russians captured the city. Only 30 singers left for the tour.
"Shchedryk" wows on the world stage
Score of Carol of the Bells is seen at the Mykola Lysenko Museum where the first playback of the record with a New York recording of Shchedryk carol (Brunswick, 1922) takes place, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. (Photo credit should read Yeven Kotenko / Uk
"Shchedryk" saw success on the world stage starting in Czechoslovakia in May 2019, when the "magic" first captivated a foreign audience.
From there, the tour wowed audiences in Austria and Switzerland. It turns out, the ambassador to France was at one of the Switzerland performances. The ambassador was so fascinated by the choir, he helped them get to Paris some nine months after the tour began. France’s government had denied visas to the singers because their country wasn’t recognized as independent.
In France, the choir performed 25 concerts, but none had been attended by the French prime minister, the chairman of the Peace Conference. The prime minister didn’t support an independent Ukraine.
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From France, the choir went on to Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Poland. In every country, Leontovych’s "Shchedryk" was the most popular song in the program. It was translated into several different European languages and performed by foreign choirs, but the fascination with Ukrainian singers wasn’t enough for Western leaders to recognize Ukraine as independent.
By 1921, Ukraine was occupied by Russians, and composer Leontovych was killed.
Ukrainians flee to the United States
A vinyl record with a New York recording of Shchedryk Christmas carol (Brunswick, 1922) has been played in the capital for the first time at the Mykola Lysenko Museum, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. (Photo credit should read Yeven Kotenko / Ukrinform/Futu
With their home country under occupation, Ukrainian singers moved to the United States in 1922, and that’s when the future "Carol of the Bells" made its debut in North America. Not long after they started touring in the U.S., the choir recorded several songs, including "Shchedryk," with a record company in New York.
The choir continued touring, performing in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba and Canada before they stopped touring in 1924. For five and a half years, "Shchedryk" had been their biggest hit.
READ MORE: Decorated Ukrainian Olympian selling his medals to support war effort
After the tour ended, some of the singers stayed in New York and continued to perform in the 1930s. American conductor Peter Wilhousky, who was of Ukrainian descent, heard "Shchedryk" at one of these performances. At the time, he led a school choir in New York and was in search of a song to be played on NBC Radio.
"I needed a short number to fill out a program ... since the youngsters would not sing in Ukrainian, I had to compose a text in English," Wilhousky said at the time. "I discarded the Ukrainian text about ‘shchedryk’ and instead concentrated on the merry tinkle of the bells which I head in the music."
Nearly two decades after "Schedryk" was born, the swallows were changed to bells and the Ukrainian spring became an American Christmas. The song, "Carol of the Bells," has been ingrained in U.S. Christmas culture since the 1940s. | 2022-12-02T20:09:22+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/carol-of-the-bells-history-ukraine |
CEDARHURST, N.Y., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Dentsply Sirona, Inc. (NasdaqGS: XRAY), if they purchased the Company's shares between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until August 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker has been here before.
It’s hard not to think of the last time the Astros’ manager was up 3-2 in the Fall Classic as he leads the team back to Houston Saturday night for Game 6 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies needing just one win for a championship.
In 2002, Baker’s San Francisco Giants and big bopper Barry Bonds entered Game 6 against the Anaheim Angels up by the same margin. As the road team for the last two games of that series, the Giants squandered a five-run lead in a 6-5 loss in the sixth game before the Angels won the title with a 4-1 victory in Game 7.
Twenty years later in his third trip to the World Series, Baker is still looking for that elusive championship after a quarter-century as a major league manager. As a player, he went three times with the Dodgers, winning it all as a big-hitting left fielder in 1981.
“I don’t think about the situation I’m in,” Baker said of chasing the title. “Just taking a day of rest, because (if) you think about something all the time, it would drive you crazy.”
With A.J. Hinch as manager, the Astros also led the Series 3-2 in 2019 against the Nationals and lost in seven games.
The 73-year-old Baker, whose contract expires at the end of the postseason, also insisted that he hasn’t spent any time worrying about his future either.
“I’ve just learned over a period of time that, hey, you just live your life, try to do the right things, seize the moment, and enjoy as much as you can,” he said. “Enjoy this ride … I always thought, hey, when I’m supposed to win, I’m going to win. And when I’m supposed to sign a contract, I’ll sign a contract. But in the meantime, I’m just going to go out there and enjoy what I have been doing for a long time.”
The Astros took a lead in the series by winning the last two games. Cristian Javier and three relievers combined for the second no-hitter in Series history in Game 4 before Justin Verlander finally got his first World Series win in Game 5 thanks to a clutch homer by rookie Jeremy Peña and a terrific ninth-inning catch by Chas McCormick.
Despite a two-game skid, Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson isn’t worried about his team. After all, this is the same squad, led by stars Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, that overcame a 22-29 start to reach the postseason for the first time since 2011.
“We’ve played really good baseball,” Thomson said. “I don’t think there’s any reason to panic. We’ve just got to keep doing what we’re doing and concentrate on doing the little things. I always tell ’em, focus on the little things and big things will happen.”
Houston will start left-hander Framber Valdez against Zack Wheeler on Saturday night n a repeat of the Game 2 matchup the Astros won 5-2.
Valdez allowed four hits and a run with nine strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings for the victory in that one. Wheeler struggled, giving up six hits and five runs — four earned — in five innings.
Wheeler is looking for a better performance Saturday to allow the Phillies to force a Game 7 Sunday night where they could try for their third title and first since 2008.
“Just try to be a stopper and give our team one more chance after (Saturday),” Wheeler said. “So (Saturday’s) a must-win and I’ll take pride in that. Hopefully I can go out there and give us the best chance.”
After facing the hostile crowds in Philadelphia for the last three games, Baker expects to enjoy home support that will be at full tilt as the Astros try to win their second World Series. Their only title came in 2017, a crown won in Los Angeles that was tarnished by a sign-stealing scandal that rocked baseball.
The last team to win a Series at home was the 2013 Boston Red Sox. The Astros watched as the Nationals celebrated a title on their field in 2019 and again last season as the Braves beat them in six games.
“It’s going to be a great, great crowd,” Baker said. “They’re for us. The town’s for us. Tickets are at a premium because all of a sudden now everybody wants tickets. We could probably hold a couple hundred thousand if we had room.”
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-11-05T20:09:41+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-astros-aim-to-close-out-world-series-over-phillies-in-game-6/ |
Estrada pledges to deliver real results to improve the lives of hard-working families
GALESBURG, Ill., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ray Estrada announced his campaign for Congress in Illinois' 17th Congressional District, pledging to deliver real results to improve the lives of hard-working families in Illinois.
"Forty-four years ago, my family and I fled Nicaragua to escape the deadly civil war and communist takeover. We found safety and opportunity in Galesburg, Illinois, where I raised my family, and continue to give to the community that has provided us so much opportunity," said Ray Estrada, Republican candidate for Congress.
"Today, our businesses and families are at risk. Ordinary families are struggling to make ends meet, government policies and regulations are limiting our opportunities to get ahead, and domestic and international extremists and adversaries are using our pain to divide us, undermine our institutions, and advance their own radical agendas. I am running for Congress because I know how important freedom and the American Dream are. I will fight to provide relief and opportunity for our families and those in need," said Estrada.
"We need to improve our schools to be the best in the world; We need to ensure our communities are safe and prosperous so everyone has the opportunity to build the life of their dreams," pledged Ray Estrada. "We must work together, and together we will end the reckless spending and limit government overreach. Washington is destroying our opportunities to get ahead with failed policies by driving up the cost of living, closing off opportunities, and unleashing a violent crime wave."
About Ray Estrada
Ray Estrada is a successful entrepreneur, humanitarian, and family man who has lived the American Dream. He's running for Congress on a platform of creating financial security for our families; to build safer communities and secure our country and its borders; to stand up to domestic and international bullies; to rebuild our core institutions; and to ensure our kids and grandkids have the same opportunities and values we were raised with.
When Estrada was twelve, his family fled Nicaragua, barely escaping the deadly civil war that resulted in the communist takeover. They settled in Galesburg, where Ray and his wife raised four kids, and he built his career and gave back to the community. Estrada served as President of the Estrada Global Foundation, which provides aid to refugees and displaced citizens through direct assistance that helps provide for their basic needs and safety. The foundation has provided aid in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Spain, and war-torn Ukraine. Closer to home, the Foundation has provided over half a million meals to needy families in Western Illinois. Estrada has fought against communism and traveled internationally into refugee camps to provide assistance and spotlight awareness and action. He is a strong advocate of human rights and has testified in the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress. Estrada knows the vital importance of freedom, liberty, prosperity, law enforcement, and a free press to create safety and security for all people. Informed by his own life story, he is passionately committed to fostering American Dream-style opportunities for men, women, and children in the United States.
In 2022, Mr. Estrada's work and contributions were recognized by the State of Illinois in House Resolution 696, sponsored by State Rep. Dan Swanson, who said, "Estrada is a great example of what the American Dream can be with hard work and determination."
Ray and his wife Amy recently celebrated 29 years of marriage and have been blessed with two sons and two daughters. They are members of Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Galesburg. Ray has served as Chief of the Knox County Sheriff's Auxiliary Department. Ray is a graduate of Augustana College B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and earned an M.B.A. from North Park University, Chicago, with a concentration in Finance.
Ray Estrada is the Republican running for Congress in Illinois' 17th Congressional District, one of the most competitive districts in the nation. It is one of the NRCC's top target districts, and incumbent Eric Sorensen is one of the DCCC's 29 'Frontline' members, singling him out for extra help from the D.C. establishment.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 16-year-old girl was killed and nine other people were injured in a knife attack in an orphanage in central Poland, authorities said Wednesday.
The attack in Tomislawice, near the town of Lodz, took place late Tuesday. A 19-year-old man suspected of the attack has been arrested, according to Aneta Sobieraj, spokeswoman for police in the Lodz region.
Four wounded children and a tutor were hospitalized but their injuries are not life-threatening. Four other victims did not need hospital treatment.
In a separate incident, a 61-year-old man remains hospitalized after a masked attacker stabbed him in the back in central Warsaw on Tuesday. Police are searching for the attacker. | 2023-05-10T10:42:47+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/teen-killed-9-injured-in-knife-attack-in-polish-18090341.php |
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers defense began the season Sunday looking like a vulturous force, and reigning Defensive Player of the Year T.J. Watt was the chief disruptor.
Then Watt walked off injured in the fourth quarter, his left arm hanging limply at this side, casting serious doubt on when Pittsburgh might look so fearsome again.
Watt suffered a pectoral injury in the fourth quarter of a 23-20 overtime win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
The Steelers didn’t provide many details after the game. Coach Mike Tomlin said only that “T.J. has been evaluated with an upper-body injury.”
The 27-year-old Watt got hurt in the waning minutes of regulation. He bull-rushed his way past Cincinnati right tackle La’el Collins — ripping Collins’ helmet off in the process, a penalty that gave the Bengals a first down — and then jumped on top of Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Burrow ducked under Watt and managed to get the ball away, and Watt’s left arm went motionless as Burrow eluded his grasp.
Watt was greeted by Dr. James Bradley, the team physician, as he made his way off the field. He went straight to the locker room and did not return. Pittsburgh later ended a three-game losing streak to the Bengals on the final play of overtime.
The three-time All-Pro did not address reporters postgame, though he was in the locker room. He is expected to undergo further testing and evaluation on Monday.
“I’m not going to speculate what’s going and how bad the injury is,” defensive tackle Cam Heyward said. “But you know having T.J. out there definitely benefits us. He’s a leader. He’s a defensive player here. However long it takes, other guys are going to step up.”
One of the NFL’s elite edge rushers, Watt was at his disruptive best in Cincinnati, sacking Burrow once and picking off a pass in the first quarter that set up Mitch Trubisky’s 2-yard TD pass to Najee Harris to give Pittsburgh a 17-3 lead.
Losing Watt would be a huge blow to the Steelers, who will have to rely on their defense while trying to get their offense on track. Watt tied the NFL single-season sacks record with 22 1/2 last season despite missing two games.
If Watt tore his pectoral muscle, he likely would miss extended time and potentially the season. His older brother J.J. Watt tore a pec in the middle of the 2019 season while playing for Texas and missed two months. Heyward, his longtime teammate, missed the second half of the 2016 season after tearing a pec, and former Steeler defensive end Stephon Tuitt missed the final 10 games of the 2019 season after tearing a pec in a win over the Chargers.
The Steelers are thin behind Watt at outside linebacker. Alex Highsmith — who also left the game on Sunday with an injury — is the only other outside linebacker on the roster who has spent extended time in Pittsburgh.
The Steelers acquired backup Malik Reed in a trade with Denver last month and claimed Jamir Jones off waivers on Sept. 1 after he was released by Jacksonville a day earlier. Jones did spend a few months with Pittsburgh in 2021 before being released last September.
Jones and Reed were credited with three combined tackles against the Bengals.
Watt has been durable during his five-year career, missing just three games due to injury. With him, the Steelers have a defense with elite players at all three levels, in Watt, Heyward and safety Minkah Fitzpatrick. Without him, Pittsburgh’s offense under first-year quarterback Mitch Trubisky might need to accelerate the learning curve.
That might be difficult without Harris, who left in the fourth quarter after injuring his left foot. The foot was heavily wrapped postgame. Backup Jaylen Warren, who earned the job after a stellar training camp, ran for 7 yards on three carries in his NFL debut.
The Steelers host New England (0-1) next Sunday.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-12T13:55:11+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/sports/ap-steelers-watt-leaves-game-vs-bengals-with-pectoral-injury/ |
There is absolutely nothing new about coleslaw, but there is something slightly intriguing about coleslaw with mangos. Often, when we think of coleslaw, we think of it as a side for fish and chips, barbecue or heavy, mayonnaise-drenched cabbage. But just think about the cool, crunchy sweetness of the cabbage, carrots and mango, paired with the spicy kick of jerk chicken. What’s a better combination? You also don’t have to serve it as a side: It can be tucked into a sandwich or wrap. One of the best things about this recipe is that all the ingredients are readily available, and there are many shortcuts you can take, like using a bagged mix. Who wants to ruin their knuckles on a box grater, or break out the food processor?
Mango Slaw
Ingredients:
• 1 (8-ounce) bag coleslaw (about 3 cups)
• 2 large, slightly firm mangoes (about 1 3/4 pounds), peeled, pitted and thinly sliced (about 2 cups)
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 tablespoon honey or agave syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon celery salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions:
In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Toss with tongs or a fork to combine.
Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Serve cold.
Total time: 5 minutes, plus chilling, makes 3 cups. | 2022-08-24T03:40:28+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/08/23/food/a-refreshing-slaw/ |
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Emclaire Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: EMCF)'s sale to Farmers National Banc Corp. Pursuant to the agreement, Emclaire shareholders may elect to receive either $40.00 per share in cash or 2.15 shares of Farmers' common stock, subject to an overall limitation of 70% of the shares being exchanged for Farmers' shares and 30% for cash. If you are an Emclaire shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: POLY)'s sale to HP Inc. for $40.00 per share. If you are a POLY shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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IRVINE, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InMode Ltd. (Nasdaq: INMD), a leading global provider of innovative medical technologies, is proud to announce the EmpowerRF Women's Wellness launch in Canada. InMode has recently received Health Canada certification to improve urinary incontinence symptoms (SUI). This adds to previous licences for improving the symptoms of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM), chronic pelvic pain, and blood circulation.
InMode's multi-functional platform is the most advanced and comprehensive feminine wellness solution available, leveraging synergistic complementary modalities, including intravaginal electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), fractional electrocoagulation of mucosa, and bipolar radiofrequency (RF).
Shakil Lakhani, InMode North American President, commented, "The introduction of the EmpowerRF technology in Canada is a key milestone in our strategy to elevate the standard of care in feminine health globally. This further solidifies InMode's commitment to delivering powerful therapies that address the unmet needs of this important market."
"EmpowerRF is revolutionizing women's wellness everywhere. Its safe and highly efficacious minimally invasive life-changing treatments will significantly impact women's quality of life. Our ongoing multi-center studies assure us that women will no longer have to suffer in silence with these issues," said Dr. Spero Theodorou, InMode Chief Medical Officer and Plastic Surgeon.
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InMode is a leading global provider of innovative medical technologies. InMode develops, manufactures, and markets devices harnessing novel radiofrequency ("RF") technology. InMode strives to enable new emerging surgical procedures as well as improve existing treatments. InMode has leveraged its medically-accepted minimally-invasive RF technologies to offer a comprehensive line of products across several categories for plastic surgery, gynecology, dermatology, otolaryngology, and ophthalmology. For more information about InMode and its wide array of medical technologies, visit www.inmodemd.com.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears.
The penalty of 1.2 billion euros is the biggest since the EU’s strict data privacy regime took effect five years ago, surpassing Amazon’s 746 million euro fine in 2021 for data protection violations.
Meta, which had previously warned that services for its users in Europe could be cut off, vowed to appeal and ask courts to immediately put the decision on hold.
The company said “there is no immediate disruption to Facebook in Europe.” The decision applies to user data like names, email and IP addresses, messages, viewing history, geolocation data and other information that Meta — and other tech giants like Google — use for targeted online ads.
“This decision is flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies transferring data between the EU and U.S.,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, and chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead said in a statement.
It’s yet another twist in a legal battle that began in 2013 when Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed a complaint about Facebook’s handling of his data following former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations of electronic surveillance by U.S. security agencies. That included the disclosure that Facebook gave the agencies access to the personal data of Europeans.
The saga has highlighted the clash between Washington and Brussels over the differences between Europe’s strict view on data privacy and the comparatively lax regime in the U.S., which lacks a federal privacy law. The EU has been a global leader in reining in the power of Big Tech with a series of regulations forcing them police their platforms more strictly and protect users’ personal information.
An agreement covering EU-U.S. data transfers known as the Privacy Shield was struck down in 2020 by the EU’s top court, which said it didn’t do enough to protect residents from the U.S. government’s electronic prying. Monday’s decision confirmed that another tool to govern data transfers — stock legal contracts — was also invalid.
Brussels and Washington signed a deal last year on a reworked Privacy Shield that Meta could use, but the pact is awaiting a decision from European officials on whether it adequately protects data privacy.
EU institutions have been reviewing the agreement, and the bloc’s lawmakers this month called for improvements, saying the safeguards aren’t strong enough.
The Ireland’s Data Protection Commission handed down the fine as Meta’s lead privacy regulator in the 27-nation bloc because the Silicon Valley tech giant’s European headquarters is based in Dublin.
The Irish watchdog said it gave Meta five months to stop sending European user data to the U.S. and six months to bring its data operations into compliance “by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, in the U.S.” of European users’ personal data transferred in violation of the bloc’s privacy rules.
In other words, Meta has to erase all that data, which could be a bigger problem than the fine, said Johnny Ryan, senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, a nonprofit rights group that has worked on digital and data issues.
“This order to delete data is really a headache for Meta,” Ryan said. If the company has to scrub data for hundreds of millions of European Union users going back 10 years, “it is very hard to see how it will be able to comply with that order.”
If a new transatlantic privacy agreement does take effect before the deadlines, “our services can continue as they do today without any disruption or impact on users,” Meta said.
Schrems predicted that Meta has “no real chance” of getting the decision materially overturned. And a new privacy pact might not mean the end of Meta’s troubles, because there’s a good chance it could be tossed out by the EU’s top court, he said.
“Meta plans to rely on the new deal for transfers going forward, but this is likely not a permanent fix,” Schrems said in a statement. “Unless U.S. surveillance laws gets fixed, Meta will likely have to keep EU data in the EU.”
Schrems said a possible solution could be a “federated” social network, where European data stays in Meta’s data centers in Europe, “unless users for example chat with a U.S. friend.”
Meta warned in its latest earnings report that without a legal basis for data transfers, it will be forced to stop offering its products and services in Europe, “which would materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.”
The social media company might have to carry out a costly and complex revamp of its operations if it’s ultimately forced to stop the transfers. Meta has a fleet of 21 data centers, according to its website, but 17 of them are in the United States. Three others are in the European nations of Denmark, Ireland and Sweden. Another is in Singapore.
Other social media giants are facing pressure over their data practices. TikTok has tried to soothe Western fears about the Chinese-owned short video sharing app’s potential cybersecurity risks with a $1.5 billion project to store U.S. user data on Oracle servers. | 2023-05-23T00:30:45+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/money/ap-meta-fined-record-1-3-billion-and-ordered-to-stop-sending-european-user-data-to-us/ |
Updated November 28, 2022 at 7:11 PM ET
Two counties in a couple of swing states turned what is usually an uneventful step in the election process into a political flashpoint on Monday.
Officials in rural, Republican-controlled Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, voted to delay certifying the results of this month's midterm elections and miss the state's legal deadline of Monday, despite finding no legitimate problems with the local counts.
"There is no reason for us to delay," said the Democratic chair of the county's board of supervisors, Ann English, whose vote was outnumbered by the county's two Republican supervisors, Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd.
The move risks the exclusion of more than 47,000 Arizonans' votes from the state's final, official tally, and it has set off court action. The nonprofit Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans and a Cochise County voter, represented in part by the Elias Law Group, are suing the county supervisors to try to force them to certify by Thursday.
The Arizona secretary of state's office was also planning to file a lawsuit on Monday, spokesperson Sophia Solis said by email.
And in northeastern Pennsylvania's Luzerne County, some 117,000 votes may end up left out of official results after the local board of elections deadlocked along party lines when its fifth member, a Democrat, abstained from voting on whether to certify. Monday is the state's certification deadline for counties that have not received legally valid recount petitions.
Pennsylvania's Department of State has contacted the county's officials "to inquire about the board's decision and their intended next steps," spokesperson Ellen Lyon said in an email. The Democratic board member who abstained from voting told The Associated Press after the hearing that he planned to vote in favor of certifying at another meeting, set for Wednesday.
Election certifications have gone relatively smoothly despite these delays
For the most part, however, the local certification of midterm election results has proceeded without much controversy — in Pennsylvania, Arizona and across the country.
In the corner of Arizona opposite of Cochise County, another Republican-controlled community — Mohave County — signaled it was close not to certifying election results. Last week, GOP officials there said they wanted to hold off on making a decision until Monday's deadline in order to make a political statement. And after recessing their meeting Monday, Mohave's board of supervisors ultimately voted to certify the results.
Still, many election watchers had been raising concerns that Republican officials may disrupt the process for making the election results official after GOP leaders in Cochise County voted on Nov. 18 to wait to decide whether to certify the results until the legal deadline on Monday.
"We also knew coming into this election after the last cycle and what we saw in Otero County [in New Mexico's primary this year]," explained Tammy Patrick, a former Arizona election official who's now a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises, during a briefing with reporters last week, "that certification would be another mundane, banal administrative procedure that was going to be leveraged and used for partisan potential gain or partisan rhetoric, at least. And that's what we're seeing here."
Republican supervisors in Cochise County cited claims about the certification of election equipment, which Kori Lorick, Arizona's state election director, confirmed had been tested and properly certified. Still, Crosby and Judd have called for a meeting on Friday to discuss the claims.
Before Monday's vote, Lorick said in a statement that Arizona's secretary of state "will use all available legal remedies to compel compliance with Arizona law and protect Cochise County voters' right to have their votes counted" if the board failed to complete its "non-discretionary duty."
The controversy over local vote certifications comes as Republicans continue to criticize the election administration in Arizona's Maricopa County, the state's largest county and home to Phoenix.
Maricopa's Republican leadership has defended its handling of the election and said no voters were disenfranchised as a result of technical issues that cropped up on Election Day. Still, GOP candidates for governor and state attorney general, among others, have questioned the results and sought more information after electronic vote-counting tabulators malfunctioned early on Nov. 8 in some of the county's voting locations.
And Abraham Hamadeh, the Republican attorney general candidate, has taken steps that could turn Arizona's state-level certification deadline, Dec. 5, into another flashpoint.
Last week, Hamadeh and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit asking an Arizona state court to issue an order that would stop Arizona's secretary of state from issuing a certificate of election to the race's apparent winner, Democrat Kris Mayes.
The razor-thin margin between Hamadeh and Mayes means the race is poised for an automatic recount.
Ben Giles, a reporter with NPR member station KJZZ in Phoenix, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-29T02:17:28+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-11-28/counties-in-arizona-pennsylvania-fail-to-certify-election-results-by-legal-deadlines |
Lexus on Tuesday provided the first look at the interior of its upcoming TX and confirmed a debut for the three-row crossover SUV on June 8.
The TX is a plusher version of the new 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander, and Lexus earlier this month teased part of the exterior design.
Lexus hasn’t provided any details, though the latest teasers confirm the availability of a Mark Levinson audio system and a six-seat configuration with two individual seats in the second row. Alternatives will likely feature second-row captain’s chairs or a standard three-seat bench.
A digital gauge cluster and a large touchscreen infotainment system will likely feature on the dashboard. Lexus has also previously hinted that automated driver-assist features will be available.
Underpinning the vehicle will be Toyota’s TNGA-K front-wheel-drive platform. Powertrain options will likely be shared with the Grand Highlander, whose powertrain lineup includes a 2.4-liter turbo-4 and two hybrid choices.
Production will be handled at Toyota’s plant in Princeton, Indiana. The plant is where Toyota will build the Grand Highlander. It’s also where the smaller Highlander is built.
Lexus hasn’t said when the TX will reach showrooms, though the vehicle should arrive as a 2024 model, just like the Grand Highlander.
Lexus has two additional SUVs coming soon. One is a redesigned 2024 GX twinned with a redesigned Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. Another is a new model line called the LBX, which will debut on June 5. It’s thought to be a subcompact crossover aimed at the European market.
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Kansas man wanted in Nebraska woman’s disappearance arrested in Belize
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - The man sought by authorities for kidnapping a 43-year-old Omaha woman who went missing the weekend before Thanksgiving has been arrested in Central America.
Douglas County Sheriff Wayne Hudson confirmed to WOWT that Aldrick Scott, 47, was arrested in Belize.
Sources had told WOWT last month that they believed Scott had plans to leave the country, possibly to Mexico. According to a Wednesday news release from the sheriff’s office, DCSO investigators learned that Scott had likely traveled by air out of the country while in Topeka working with police there.
7 News Belize reported he was arrested Tuesday by Interpol in Caye Caulker, Belize, and is awaiting extradition. DCSO said his extradition hearing was scheduled for later this week, but WOWT learned Wednesday afternoon that Scott was already en route to Houston from Belize City.
According to the arrest warrant issued in Douglas County Court last month, Scott is wanted for kidnapping and accessory to a felony.
Scott, from Topeka, is retired military, serving a total of 20 years with both the Marine Corps and U.S. Army.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is still working to find Cari Allen as their investigation continues.
Allen was last seen Saturday, Nov. 19, near her west Omaha home. Since that time, authorities have conducted searches at a home in Topeka, Kansas, and at a landfill in Bennington, Nebraska.
Search teams were also seen in Omaha, just a few blocks from Allen’s home, where crime technicians also towed Allen’s car out of her garage. A search was also conducted at an underpass in Omaha.
Allen spent 11 years working for VODEC, a nonprofit helping adults with developmental disabilities. She works as a shared-living provider, opening up her home to those who need it.
Anyone with information about Allen’s whereabouts is asked to contact the DCSO tip line at 402-444-6000.
During the course of the investigation so far, DCSO has been aided by the Topeka Police Department, Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, Metro Fugitive Task Force, the United States Marshals Service, the Nebraska State Patrol and the Omaha Police Department.
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Investigative Reporter Mike McKnight and Digital Director Gina Dvorak contributed to this report.
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Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
(AP) — Simone Biles is back.
The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event set for Aug. 5 at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates.
Biles has taken most of the last two years off following her eventful stay in Japan, where her decision to remove herself from multiple events to focus on her mental health shifted the focus from the games themselves to the overall wellness of the athletes.
She served as a cheerleader as her American teammates won the team silver then sat out the all-around, vault and floor exercise finals she had qualified for while dealing with what is known as “the twisties” — a gymnastics term for when an athlete loses their spatial awareness when airborne.
Biles returned for the balance beam final, where she won a bronze medal that tied Shannon Miller’s record for most Olympic medals by an American female gymnast. She hinted at the Paris 2024 Olympics but only after taking a lengthy break.
The last two years have been a whirlwind of sorts. She headlined her post-Olympic tour in the fall of 2021 and married NFL player Jonathan Owens — now a defensive back for the Green Bay Packers — this spring.
The 26-year-old Biles has also become one of the most vocal advocates for athletes finding space to protect their mental health after her stand in Japan put the issue front and center. While the conversation around the subject is constantly evolving, Biles’ return to the sport she dominated for nearly a decade suggests an athlete who wants to go out on her own terms.
The U.S. Classic is one of the marquee events on USA Gymnastics’ annual calendar and typically serves as a warm-up of sorts for the national championships, this year scheduled for late August in San Jose.
Biles used the Classic as her comeback meet in 2018 following a two-year hiatus after her record medals haul in Rio de Janeiro. It took her all of two hours to show she remained the gold standard in her sport, setting the stage for another spectacular run that included two more world all-around championships in 2018 and 2019 and three more national titles.
Things could be different this time around, in more ways than one.
Biles courted the spotlight during her run-up to Tokyo, becoming in many ways the face of the U.S. Olympic movement. She appears to be taking a more subdued approach with the Paris Games about a year away. She’s kept her various social media channels almost entirely gymnastics-free, instead using them to highlight snippets of her personal life.
And for the first time since rising to stardom as a teenager in 2013, Biles won’t have to shoulder the burden of being the standard bearer for the U.S. program.
Sunisa Lee, who won gold in the all-around final in Tokyo, will also be at the U.S. Classic after spending two years competing at Auburn, where she helped spearhead a massive uptick in interest in collegiate gymnastics.
Lee missed the second half of her sophomore year with the Tigers while grappling with health issues but is eyeing a return to the Olympics not to defend her all-around title but to take another shot at gold on uneven bars, her signature event. She placed third on bars in Tokyo, due in no small part to the attention she received after becoming the fifth straight American woman to win the Olympic title.
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How do recent abortion pill rulings affect Iowans?
Two opposing rulings are creating confusion about who can access mifepristone, an abortion pill, and where they can access it.
The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide what happens with access to the medication, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for nearly 20 years.
Currently, Iowans do have legal access to mifepristone, which is commonly used in medication abortions.
In Iowa, nearly 80% of all abortions in 2020 were medically induced, meaning a prescription drug, including mifepristone, was used to end the pregnancy.
Iowans could lose legal access to mifepristone by the end of the week, if the nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas is allowed to stand.
A federal appeals court can issue a stay, which would temporarily stop the ban on mifepristone. But if that court does nothing by Friday afternoon, the drug would be withdrawn from the Iowa market.
Drake University Law Professor Sally Frank says Iowans should know that mifepristone is still legal in Iowa for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.
But she says courts challenging an FDA-approved medication is an unprecedented action - creating confusion for patients and doctors.
"It is a sad day, when doctors need lawyers on speed dial to know what they can and can't do. And, unfortunately, around the country. That's the case we're in now," Frank said.
Frank says if Iowans cannot legally access mifepristone, doctors could prescribe misoprostol instead, which is also an effective abortion pill. Frank also expects the U.S. Supreme Court to step in to clear up the confusion between the conflicting rulings in Texas and Washington.
Right now, abortion is legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks into pregnancy. There is a mandatory 24-hour waiting period to get an abortion.
The Iowa Attorney General's Office has also paused compensation for rape victims' abortions or contraceptives.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Brenna Bird is auditing the program to figure out which services to provide.
Watch: Iowa AG pauses compensation for rape victims' abortions or contraceptives | 2023-04-11T02:49:40+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/how-recent-abortion-pill-rulings-affect-iowans/43558520 |
"Nothing, Forever" is back on Twitch following a temporary ban.
A new livestream of the artificial intelligence-generated show began airing Wednesday.
The show features characters similar to those in the 90's sitcom "Seinfeld." It's presented in an animation style similar to vintage video games.
One of the creators of "Nothing, Forever" said they received a 14-day suspension from Twitch because of what one of the characters said. Larry Feinberg, who is based off Jerry Seinfeld, reportedly made transphobic jokes during a standup routine.
The show's creators say the content from "Nothing," Forever" is generated via machine learning and AI algorithms.
It runs 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The creators say the storylines are always brand-new content.
While the show was on hiatus, its creators said they were working on a moderation tool to make sure similar content isn't generated. | 2023-03-09T20:24:08+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/the-seinfield-inspired-ai-show-returns-to-twitch |
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MQT County Health Dept. to hold evening vaccine appointments for kids
Published: Nov. 30, 2022 at 1:49 PM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The Marquette County Health Department is hosting later evening appointments for Children’s COVID-19 and Flu boosters.
Appointment times are:
- Thursday, Dec. 1, 4-6 p.m.
- Monday, Dec. 5, 4-6 p.m.
- Thursday, Dec. 8, 4-6 p.m.
The following includes the cost of the vaccine and the fee for administration:
- High Dose Flu 65 years & older: $30.00
- Flu Vaccine for uninsured adults 19 years & older: $30.00
- Uninsured children 18 & under: $10.00
Organizers encourage insurance cards, a COVID-19 vaccine card, and any supplemental coverage.
Cash or check only for self-pay clients. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance will be billed.
The Marquette County Health Department is located at 184 US Hwy 41, Negaunee, MI 49866.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Bestselling author Wes Moore won the Democratic primary for Maryland governor on Friday, setting up a general election contest against Republican Dan Cox, a hard-line conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Moore, the author of the book “The Other Wes Moore” and the former CEO of an anti-poverty nonprofit, defeated a long list of other high-profile Democrats, including Tom Perez, the former U.S. labor secretary and ex-Democratic National Committee chair, and Peter Franchot, the state’s longtime comptroller.
Moore will be the strong favorite in the November election against Cox, a right-wing member of the Maryland House of Delegates whose extreme brand of politics is considered a liability in a heavily Democratic state that twice elected centrist Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Moore would be the state’s first Black governor if elected.
A political novice, Moore was boosted in his campaign by Oprah Winfrey, who hosted a virtual fundraiser for him. He also had the support of U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat.
Cox was declared the winner of the Republican primary on Tuesday night. It took until Friday to call the Democratic primary for Moore because the margins were tighter and a larger number of mail ballots were cast in the race. Maryland law prohibits counties from opening mail ballots until the Thursday after election day.
Cox, an acolyte of Trump and supporter of right-wing causes, has promoted Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election, organized buses to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and tweeted during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that then-Vice President Mike Pence was a “traitor.”
Democrats see Moore as a strong candidate with a compelling personal story.
He was raised by a single mother after his father died when Moore was 3. Moore graduated from Valley Forge Military College and Johns Hopkins University and won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University.
He later served as a captain and paratrooper with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne and saw combat in Afghanistan.
He started and eventually sold a small business called BridgeEdU, which, according to his website, “reinvents freshman year of college for underserved students to increase their likelihood of long-term success.” During his four years as CEO of the anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood Foundation, the organization distributed more than $600 million to help impoverished families.
Moore has written a number of books, including “The Other Wes Moore,” a memoir that juxtaposes his life with that of another man with the same name and a similar background who ended up serving a life sentence for murder.
GOP voters’ decision to nominate Cox dashed the hopes of Hogan and other establishment Republicans that the party could hold on to the governor’s mansion in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1. Hogan was able to draw bipartisan support with his moderate policies and his willingness to criticize Trump when he felt it warranted — a significant act in a party that expects its members to fall in line behind its leader.
Hogan, who was prohibited from running for a third consecutive term, endorsed his former Cabinet member Kelly Schulz in the four-way Republican primary. Hogan has not been shy in his distaste for Cox, denouncing him as a “nut” and a “QAnon whack job.” Cox sued over Hogan’s stay-at-home orders and regulations at the start of the pandemic and introduced a resolution to impeach Hogan for what Cox called “malfeasance in office.”
Hogan will not vote for him in November, his spokesperson said Wednesday.
Trump gloated over Cox’s success over Schulz on Tuesday night, writing in a statement, “RINO Larry Hogan’s Endorsement doesn’t seem to be working out so well for his heavily favored candidate.”
Hogan shot back Wednesday, tweeting that “Trump lost Republicans the White House, the House, and the Senate.” He said Trump will “cost us a Governor’s seat in Maryland where I ran 45 points ahead of him.”
“He’s fighting for his ego,” Hogan said. “We’re fighting to win, and the fight goes on.”
Jim Dornan, a Republican political strategist with experience in Maryland politics, described Cox’s victory in the primary as “a disaster” for down-ballot GOP candidates relying on a strong gubernatorial nominee to draw voters to the polls. He said any satisfaction Trump gleaned from defeating Hogan’s candidate would be short-lived because Republicans are now likely to lose the general election.
“I guess it can be put this way: Trump won the battle, and Hogan is looking to win the war,” said Dornan, who managed Republican Ellen Sauerbrey’s 1998 gubernatorial campaign and ran former Republican Party chair Michael Steele’s exploratory committee for governor last year before he decided against a bid.
Still, the fact that Hogan’s handpicked successor lost to a Trump-backed rival is an ominous sign for any national political ambitions Hogan may have, said Todd Eberly, a political science professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Hogan, like Trump, has been considering a Republican bid for president in 2024.
“I think the harsh reality is going to be, if that’s the case in a state that you’ve represented for the last eight years, a state that reelected you, it’s going to be that much harder for you to find success when you move beyond the borders of that state seeking a national nomination,” Eberly said.
Democrats have long viewed Cox as the weaker candidate in a general election. The Democratic Governors Association went so far as to spend more than $1 million to air an ad intended to help Cox in the Republican primary by stressing his Trump endorsement and his conservative bona fides.
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat who has had plenty of disagreements with Hogan in recent years, said he and Hogan could sit down and discuss their differences and negotiate. Marylanders, he said, are not well represented by the winner of Tuesday’s GOP primary for governor.
“While it may be politically advantageous for the Democrats for that to be the case, I do worry what it means to have somebody who has such extreme views have a platform for the next four months,” Ferguson said.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ap_politics. | 2022-07-23T14:31:19+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/author-wes-moore-wins-democratic-race-for-maryland-governor/ |
WHITESIDE, Tenn. (AP) — Two Tennessee law enforcement officers died when their helicopter hit power lines and crashed in a wooded area. The lines fell across an interstate and lanes of the highway were shut down as first responders looked for the crash site, officials said.
A Tennessee Highway Patrol officer and a Marion County deputy sheriff were killed in the crash Tuesday afternoon in Marion County, Highway Patrol Capt. Travis Plotzer said. Their names were not immediately released and he didn't take questions at a news conference. He said the National Transportation Safety Board was leading an investigation.
The helicopter hit power lines on Aetna Mountain near Whiteside, Tennessee, causing the lines to fall across Interstate 24, officials said.
Motorist Dan Hostetler told WVLT-TV that he saw a black helicopter flying in circles before he narrowly missed getting hit by the electrical cables.
“It kind of dipped a little bit and waggled a little bit then there was a bright flash of light and puff of smoke and it hit one of the power lines that went across the highway, and sure enough the power lines started gliding down toward me and all I could think was it’s going to land on top of me,” Hostetler said. “I slammed on the brakes and stopped about 2 car lengths from the line.” | 2022-08-24T13:56:16+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/2-officers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-Tennessee-17394705.php |
EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - A death investigation is underway after the body of a man was found near UW-Eau Claire's campus.
According to the UWEC Police Department, the man, who has no connection to the university, was found unresponsive in the Putnam Park area.
Authorities said there is no immediate threat to the public. The identity of the man is not being released at this time as the death investigation continues. | 2022-10-29T00:25:32+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/news/body-found-near-uwec-campus-death-investigation-underway/article_ff0ac9d6-570f-11ed-8e58-3f4a41932d9f.html |
A West Virginia man who admitted threatening to kill Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert, pleaded guilty to a federal offense Monday and could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison, the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland said.
The threats occurred from Dec. 28, 2020, to July, according to prosecutors.
As part of a plea deal, the U.S. attorney’s office said, Connally also admitted threatening Francis Collins, who was director of the National Institutes of Health at the time, and Rachel Levine, a former Pennsylvania secretary of health who is now a top official of the Department of Health and Human Services. Connally also admitted threatening a public health official in Massachusetts, the office said.
Prosecutors said Connally, who pleaded guilty to a single charge of making threats against a federal official, was angry about coronavirus vaccine mandates. He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 4 in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md. | 2022-05-23T21:03:32+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/23/fauci-death-threats-guilty-plea/ |
Southern Miss survives elimination game against Auburn
Dustin Dickerson hit two solo home runs in the Golden Eagles’ 7-2 win
AUBURN, Ala. (WLBT) - Southern Miss faced elimination in the Auburn Regional Saturday, facing the host Tigers at Plainsman Park.
After scoring only two runs in the opening game against Samford, the Golden Eagles surpassed that on one swing in the first inning, as Christopher Sargent blasted a home run with two runners on in the opening frame to open the scoring.
Dustin Dickerson added two solo home runs, one in the third and one in the fifth, and Danny Lynch also lifted a solo shot in the eighth.
For the second-straight day, the Golden Eagles got a solid pitching performance from their starter. Billy Oldham pitched 5.2 innings, only struck out one, but allowed just two runs on four hits.
Will Armistead cleaned up the rest of the game out of the bullpen. Armistead went 3.1 innings, struck out three, and allowed five hits without a run.
The Golden Eagles will face the loser of Samford and Penn on Sunday at 2:00.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Sunday was a beautiful morning in Western Massachusetts, with many posting photos of the brilliant pink sunrise on their social media. But what causes a sunrise, or sunset, to have bright and brilliant colors?
The effect is something scientists call scattering, and the wavelength of light and size of the particle are what determines the color, according to Science Daily. Blue and violet are more common, but the position of the sun at sunrise and sunset can cause these colors to move away from our line of sight. Instead, we see the reds, oranges, yellows, and Sunday morning pink.
Anyone who has heard the popular phrase “Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors taking warning,” understands the legend behind such a beautiful start to the morning. A pink sky likely means a high pressure system has moved eastward, and a low pressure system is moving in with rain attached. | 2022-11-28T01:10:33+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/the-meaning-behind-a-pink-sunrise/ |
NEW YORK, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CelebExperts has built a reputation for creativity and results in influencer marketing campaigns. CelebExperts will offer 5 companies its premium services without charging a retainer, just a percentage of talent spend.
The industry has become riddled with companies signing on brands high retainers and providing little to no results. CelebExperts run by industry experts Evan Morgenstein (CEO/Founder) and Christina Brennan (President) will invest their team's experience in creating some of the successful influencer programs for five brands. Brands will be chosen from various categories of expertise including but not limited to food, nutrition, plant-based products, healthy living and outdoor living.
The goal of this program is to assist brands with great products but limited budgets succeed. CelebExperts President and Founder Evan Morgenstein says, "We have found that brands are much more comfortable going back to a more traditional model commission on spend versus the retainer. This is especially so for start-ups, emerging brands new to influencer marketing. We are excited to take our expertise in creating influencer marketing campaigns that have been wildly successful and showing new clients how to avoid the pitfalls of failure that so many brands have experienced."
CelebExperts will be reviewing companies interested from April 25 through May 5. The investment for securing influencers will be discussed on a brand-by-brand basis with a minimum spend required to qualify. For more details email Evan at evan@celebexperts.com with your company website and information on your product ASAP.
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Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is the designated survivor for President Biden’s State of the Union address, according to a White House official.
Walsh as Labor secretary is the 11th in the presidential line of succession. Walsh is expected to step down from his job in the Biden administration to take over as head of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill earlier on Tuesday. He will be the first Senate-confirmed Cabinet official in the line of succession to leave the White House since Biden took office.
The designated survivor tradition involves a member of the president’s Cabinet staying at an undisclosed location during the State of the Union to preserve the government’s succession in the case of a catastrophic incident during the address at the Capitol. Vice President Harris and other Cabinet members are in attendance for the speech.
As Labor secretary, Walsh was at the forefront of Biden’s efforts to fulfill his pledge to be the most pro-union president in history, meeting frequently with union workers, including those on strike.
Walsh played a key role in negotiations between railroad operators and union workers to avoid a strike that officials said would have crippled the U.S. supply chain and damaged the economy. Congress eventually voted to impose a contract to avoid a strike after negotiations initially faltered.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland shared a photograph 45 minutes before the start of the address with fellow members of the Cabinet, with Walsh missing.
“The progress we have made together over the past two years is unmistakable. Looking forward to @POTUS’ State of the Union address tonight. #SOTU,” Halaand wrote. The Interior secretary also shared a photograph of herself and other members of the Cabinet ahead of the last State of the Union.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was the designated survivor for the president’s State of the Union address in 2022. The secretary of Commerce is 10th in the presidential line of succession. | 2023-02-08T04:16:42+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/labor-secretary-marty-walsh-is-designated-survivor-for-2023-state-of-the-union/ |
GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ROK Financial, a leader in the alternative and commercial lending space announces the promotion of Shannon Treadwell to Chief Operating Officer. Treadwell will work alongside President Patrick Manning, overseeing the operations of the firm.
Shannon started her career with the ROK Financial team nine years ago as a receptionist. Her tenacity and eagerness to take on more quickly led her up the ranks within the organization. For the past four years, Shannon has led the Production Department as the VP of Production. Streamlining processes for clients and strengthening relationships with lenders by fully immersing herself in all aspects of the job. Shannon brought a new perspective to her role, by bridging the gap between operations and sales.
"Over the last nine years, Shannon has demonstrated an impressive track record of achieving measurable results and operational accomplishments across the organization," said James Webster, CEO of ROK Financial. "We are fortunate to have such a valuable asset as Shannon, while we continue to accelerate our growth and scale our operations to serve more businesses nationwide."
In addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations, Shannon will play an integral role in ROK's efforts to expand their remote sales platform, while continuing to build upon the organization's high-performing culture. She will also play a pivotal role in accelerating the execution of ROK's strategy, scaling innovation, and identifying new market opportunities.
ROK Financial is committed to establishing ROK solid relationships with clients, lenders, and partners. By providing the best financing solutions available to business owners while creating a positive association with business financing. Through streamlined processes, revolutionary technology and an educated team of experts, support business owners ability to create new opportunities. ROK Financial is proud to empower the heartbeat of the country, our small businesses. To learn more, visit website www.rok.biz
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How to Watch Women's Wimbledon Today: Live Stream and More - July 12
Published: Jul. 12, 2023 at 2:45 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
There are two matches in Wimbledon (grass) quarterfinals today, highlighted by No. 6-ranked Ons Jabeur versus No. 3 Elena Rybakina. All the tennis can be found via live stream.
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Wimbledon Information
- Tournament: Wimbledon
- Round: Quarterfinals
- Date: July 12
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
- Venue: AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Today's Best Match Insights: Jabeur vs. Rybakina
- Jabeur has won one title so far this year, and her overall record is 18-8.
- Rybakina has gone 34-9 through 12 tournaments this year, and has captured two tournament titles.
- In her 26 matches this year across all court surfaces, Jabeur has played an average of 20 games.
- In her seven matches on grass this year, Jabeur has played an average of 18.9 games.
- Jabeur has won 68.1% of her service games this year, and 44.1% of her return games.
- Rybakina has played 43 matches this year across all court types, averaging 19.5 games per match and winning 58.0% of those games.
- Through six matches on grass this year, Rybakina averages 19.2 games per match and 9.6 games per set with a 61.7% game winning percentage.
- Rybakina is 342-for-420 in service games (to compile a winning percentage of 81.4%) and 145-for-420 in return games (34.5%) on all surfaces.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ: ALGT) has scheduled its full year and fourth quarter 2022 financial results conference call for Wednesday, February 1 at 4:30 p.m. EST. A live broadcast of the conference call will be available through the company's Investor Relations website homepage at http://ir.allegiantair.com. The webcast will also be archived on the "Events & Presentations" section of the site.
Allegiant – Together We Fly™
Las Vegas-based Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) is an integrated travel company with an airline at its heart, focused on connecting customers with the people, places and experiences that matter most. Since 1999, Allegiant Air has linked travelers in small-to-medium cities to world-class vacation destinations with all-nonstop flights and industry-low average fares. Today, Allegiant's fleet serves communities across the nation, with base airfares less than half the cost of the average domestic roundtrip ticket. For more information, visit us at Allegiant.com. Media information, including photos, is available at http://gofly.us/iiFa303wrtF
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natera, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRA) ("Natera"), a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, today announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $350,000,000 of shares of its common stock. In addition, Natera expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $52,500,000 of shares of its common stock at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
Morgan Stanley, Cowen and SVB Securities are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Baird is acting as co-manager for the offering.
The securities described above are being offered pursuant to an automatically effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 15, 2022. The offering will be made only by means of an effective registration statement, including a preliminary prospectus and, when available, final prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by contacting Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014; Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, Attn: Prospectus Department, by email at PostSaleManualRequests@broadridge.com or by telephone at (833) 297-2926; or SVB Securities LLC Attention: Syndicate Department 53 State Street, 40th Floor Boston, MA 02109 by telephone at 1-800-808-7525 ex. 6132 or by email at syndicate@svbsecurities.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Natera
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, dedicated to oncology, women's health, and organ health. We aim to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier, more targeted interventions that help lead to longer, healthier lives. Natera's tests are validated by more than 100 peer-reviewed publications that demonstrate high accuracy. Natera operates ISO 13485-certified and CAP-accredited laboratories certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in Austin, Texas and San Carlos, California.
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Except for historical information, certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the proposed follow-on public offering and the proposed terms of such offering are forward-looking in nature and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about Natera and its business, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to market conditions and the satisfaction of the closing conditions related to the follow-on public offering. Such forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that relate to future events and the actual results could differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on Natera's current expectations, estimates and assumptions regarding future events and are applicable only as of the dates of such statements. Natera makes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may change, except as required by law. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to Natera's business in general, please refer to the "Risk Factors" section in Natera's automatically effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 15, 2022 and the documents incorporated by reference therein, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 25, 2022 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 6, 2022, August 5, 2022 and November 9, 2022.
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The Central Dauphin boys volleyball team fell to Penn Manor, 3 sets to 1, Wednesday in a non-conference match.
The set scores were: 22-25, 16-25, 25-19 and 22-25.
The Central Dauphin boys volleyball team fell to Penn Manor, 3 sets to 1, Wednesday in a non-conference match.
The set scores were: 22-25, 16-25, 25-19 and 22-25.
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Ice-T is dropping some serious gems! In his new podcast, Ice-T's Daily Game in partnership with iHeartPodcasts, the 64-year-old veteran entertainer is coming to listeners every weekday, with a new piece of advice -- inspired by his Twitter account.
"Every day I give out something called an ice-cold fact or a daily game," he tells ET about the inspiration behind his latest venture. "And it's just things that I've learned or quotes that I use from my life. A lot of them come from me, a lot of them come from other people I respect. I recorded 200 of them and they'll come on every day. And hopefully this inspires people and motivates people. I think we all need motivation and we all need some of the keys that some successful people use to win."
For five minutes every episode, Ice-T will drop "game" that will hopefully help listeners as they start or end their day.
"It's something that you can drink your coffee to and get up in the morning and say, 'Man, I got to listen to this one today,' and hopefully it'll help you," he says. "I have quotes from Wesley Knight, quotes from philosophers, quotes from different people that I come across, and I explain my experiences with them and then you hear their knowledge."
He adds, "I hope it improves their life. I hope at least one of them says, 'Man, I needed to hear that.'"
During his time in the game -- inside and outside of Hollywood -- Ice-T has had others drop jewels to him, so it's only right that he pays it forward.
"I think my favorite one, I've always told people, is only take advice from people you admire. And admiration is a big word, not somebody you like, somebody you really admire," he says. "You're going to love the daily games. You going to get hooked on them. And hopefully what happens is people tell other people about them and it makes the world better. You know what it is? It's giving back. The best thing I can give you back is the knowledge. I can give you the knowledge of what worked for me and works for others. That's it. You can take that anywhere and everywhere."
All of the gems that came Ice-T's way are coming full circle. This month, not only did the "Original Gangster" rapper take the stage at the GRAMMYs to celebrate 50 years of hip hop, but he's also celebrating his decades-long career in music and television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"As many times as the cops had me face down on them stars, I was looking very close," he tells ET with a laugh. "So now to actually be honored is a great honor. Most of my friends are more excited about it than I was, but they had to make it clear, 'Man, your kids, this is a legacy thing. You get to be amongst all the greats.' So I'm very happy."
In other especially exciting news for Ice-T, his fan-favorite Law & Order: SVU character, Detective Odafin Tutuola, has a can't-miss episode, which will air on his birthday, Feb. 16.
"Without giving too much away, Finn basically used to be a narcotics cop before he got over to SVU," he teased. "Well, he gets the award one night, comes home, and this guy is sitting in his house and he has a gun on him. He says, 'You put me in jail for 20 years.' And it was from before SVU, and then the story unfolds from there. So you'll see I got a situation I have to address."
Listen to Ice-T's Daily Game now on iHeartPodcasts.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Two separate shootings 2,000 miles apart. One killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The other killed 23 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Both were motivated by racial hate. Both involved gunmen who later claimed mental illness.
But earlier this year, the Justice Department authorized the death penalty only for the case in Pittsburgh, where jurors will soon answer the weightiest of questions: Should Robert Bowers be put to death?
Bowers’ trial is in the penalty phase after his June conviction for the 2018 antisemitic attack. A federal judge last Friday gave Patrick Crusius the maximum available sentence for the 2019 Walmart attack on Hispanics: life in prison. He pleaded guilty after the department took a death sentence off the table.
Contrasting decisions in such similar cases illustrate the department’s murky, often baffling and seemingly inconsistent death penalty policies. Department decision-making and the criteria it favors are also shrouded in secrecy.
So how do those decisions get made and by whom?
BIDEN’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
President Joe Biden campaigned in part on a promise to abolish the U.S. death penalty. While he has taken no steps to fulfill that, his Justice Department has made some notable changes.
In 2021, Garland announced a moratorium on federal executions while a review of execution procedures is completed. However, it doesn’t stop prosecutors from seeking death sentences.
The department also withdrew permission for death sentences in 24 out of 29 cases authorized by prior administrations.
And the department hasn’t authorized death penalties for any of around 400 new indictments during Biden’s presidency that carried capital sentences. But it’s still mulling whether to authorize a death sentence for Payton Gendron, a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket in 2022.
WHAT HASN’T CHANGED UNDER BIDEN?
Critics of the department single out an enigmatic department division, the Capital Case Section. With just nine career attorneys and one administrator, it assists U.S. attorney’s offices with capital cases and plays a vital role advising department review committees, which vote on recommending death sentences, although Attorney General Merrick Garland has the final say.
Though many were hired under other administrations, all current staff worked in the section under President Donald Trump, who oversaw a historic six-month spree of 13 federal executions. Richard Burns, the team’s leader, became section chief during Trump’s term.
Critics argue that carryover contributes to an unwelcome continuity.
The department has fought as hard under Biden as under Trump to defeat all bids by some 40 inmates on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, to have their death sentences tossed on racial bias and other grounds.
“I don’t think it’s a surprise that in the absence of any declared policy in the White House and having the same staff at the Capital Case Section that you do not have wholescale changes,” said Robert Dunham, a Temple Law School adjunct professor and former director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Monica Foster, chief federal defender at the Indiana Federal Community Defenders office, argues the section has a vested interest in pushing for some capital cases to be greenlighted.
“Without death penalty cases, they have no reason for being,” said Foster, who has clashed with section attorneys in court.
The section, she said, once simply ferried documents to review committees but now assumes a more active role, conducting research and interviews to prepare for death penalty decisions.
“They can end up steering the outcome,” Foster said.
Justice Department spokesman Scottie Howell said Foster’s claim and other allegations about the section are false, adding that department staff “make all decisions based on the facts and the law and hold themselves to the highest standards.”
MENTAL HEALTH, OTHER FACTORS IN DEPARTMENT DECISIONS
An Associated Press review of court filings and Biden-era staff guides offers clues about what influences the Justice Department’s decisions. They suggest the department is most likely to OK death sentences for racist and terrorist attacks and when victims’ families support it.
Changes to department guidance also specify mental illness can count against approving death sentences, which is a departure from Trump-era guidance. At least two inmates executed under Trump had severe mental illnesses.
The guidance was central to the Crusius decision, with department attorneys accepting he had schizoaffective disorder. They rejected claims Bowers’ psychotic episodes pointed to schizophrenia.
In April court filings explaining its Bowers decision, the department noted most victims’ families wanted Bowers to die if convicted. The department also sought its own mental evaluation of Bowers before the final decision on authorization. The defense refused, saying prosecutors wouldn’t assure them Bowers’ exam statements would not be used at trial. Government mental health experts were given access to Bowers just before trial.
Responding to criticism, the department also denied its decision was inconsistent with those concerning Crusius and others, saying Bowers’ shooting stood apart because older victims were uniquely vulnerable and the crime occurred in a house of worship. The judge in the Bowers case ultimately agreed.
WHAT ELSE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE SPECIAL DIVISION?
A 2016 gender discrimination lawsuit from a former section employee against the Justice Department offered further insight into the secretive Capital Case Section. During litigation of the suit, which was later dismissed, ex-staffers accused the section of being disorganized and one accused a section attorney of withholding interview notes in Andrew Rogers’ case.
While in federal prison, Rogers killed a fellow prisoner in 2013 in a bid to get executed and avoid the drudgery of life behind bars. He told homicide investigators: “If I get the death penalty, I’ll take it with a smile.” Obama’s Justice Department authorized the death penalty for him.
Foster, representing Rogers in a 2018 bid to vacate the authorization, cited the allegations made in the gender discrimination suit. She contended the withheld notes from interviews with a prison psychologist and others would have proved Rogers’ mental illness.
Just days before a 2019 hearing in Rogers’ case to examine claims of section misconduct deriving from the discrimination suit, the department rescinded the death sentence authorization.
Foster said it did so to avoid a scheduled hearing that could have proven the allegations, and that the defense was obliged to end the case by letting Rogers plead guilty and receive a life sentence.
A 2020 department filing said an Office of Professional Responsibility investigation found no wrongdoing by the section attorney in Rogers’ case. The attorney still works in the section.
The department never publicly released an OPR report on that investigation.
A Nov. 21, 2022, OPR letter to Foster obtained by the AP says the 114-page report addressed, among other things, whether department attorneys “conducted a biased investigation to unduly influence the Attorney General” to authorize the death penalty for Rogers.
The letter says the report concluded there was no “professional misconduct” on grounds the defense ultimately received helpful evidence before Rogers pleaded guilty, even if it was received late.
But the letter also says the report found a department attorney “knowingly made a false statement to defense counsel,” and one failed “to follow a supervisor’s direction to disclose attorney notes to the defense” and displayed “general inattention to the case.”
CHANGES CAN’T HAPPEN WITHOUT BIDEN
Death penalty foes say Biden’s department should be judged by the standard Biden set himself and should oppose all executions, including Bowers’.
But blame for failures to make good on Biden’s pledge to end the federal death penalty should be directed up the command chain, Dunham said.
“If Joe Biden doesn’t want the federal death penalty, or is stuck with one and wants to make it fairer, then he and Justice Department (political appointees) need to take steps to bring that about,” he said. | 2023-07-14T11:55:23+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2023/07/how-different-death-penalty-decisions-were-made-in-pittsburgh-texas-massacres.html |
FSU researchers expand trauma response services for people leaving Seminole County Jail
The Seminole County sheriff's office is expanding its work with Florida State University to study and treat trauma.
A new program focuses on people getting out of the county jail.
Beginning in August, 100 inmates at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility will get the chance to participate in a program hosted by FSU that looks to study the impact of trauma on inmates and how learning to cope with that trauma can help them once they're released.
"The goal is to enhance their social and emotional management skills,” Stephen Tripodi, an FSU associate professor, said.
Tripodi is one of the faculty directors. He says the program allows researchers to study the impacts of trauma on inmates while offering services to those inmates to manage their trauma better.
"The program is called STAIR. It stands for Skills Training on Affective and Interpersonal Regulation,” Tripodi said.
The university did a smaller pilot program with the jail back in 2019. This latest program will be offered to more inmates.
Those with the Seminole County sheriff's office said they're excited to partner with FSU again, saying they're always looking for ways to help those behind bars learn from their mistakes and stay out of jail once they're released.
"Sheriff Lemma is an innovator, and he's always looking for ways to equip our inmates with the ability and the knowledge to identify these triggers that often play a part in landing them behind bars in the first place,” said Bob Kealing with the Seminole County sheriff’s office.
Researchers say the inmates involved in the program will be offered 12 sessions over the next two years. Researchers hope to expand the program to other jails across the state and country if the study here yields successful results. | 2022-07-15T03:11:21+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/seminole-county-jail-trauma-program/40619463 |
Even when the gimmick worked, Erik Spoelstra appreciated there had to be something more defensively.
Once the gimmick was solved, the Miami Heat’s defense has been, well, defenseless.
Yes, it was a good run for the zone defense that Spoelstra utilized during the first half of the season, putting his team on record pace for defensive possessions in zone and vaulting the Heat to a top-five defensive rating prior to the All-Star break.
And then it wasn’t such a good run.
“The last few times we’ve used it, we’ve gotten torched by it,” Spoelstra said. “So it was kind of an easy decision to move away from it. We work on it, still. Still have it in our tool kit. It just depends on the game and the circumstance.”
At the moment, circumstances are dire on that end of the floor, including Saturday night’s 129-100 loss to the Brooklyn Nets at Miami-Dade Arena.
The numbers are staggering and sobering.
In their last 15 games, the Heat are 25th in the 30-team NBA in defensive rating.
In their last 10, they are 28th.
And in March, the only team with a worse defensive rating is the Indiana Pacers, as in the team that gave up 143 points in a Saturday loss to the Atlanta Hawks.
“We have not been defending at a world class level the way we’re capable of,” Spoelstra understated, with the Heat idle until a back-to-back road trip against the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night and New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
“I’ve seen us defend with much better discipline, communication, precision and effort, and we didn’t have enough of that consistently throughout the last three quarters [against the Nets].”
Not only did the previously struggling Nets finish with their best offensive rating of the season on Saturday night, but the Heat closed with their worst defensive rating since the NBA began tracking such statistics in 1996-97.
Combined with Wednesday night’s 127-120 victory over the visiting Knicks, the Heat have allowed 120 or more in consecutive games for the first time since allowing 124 in a loss to the Denver Nuggets on Dec. 30 and 123 in a victory over the Utah Jazz on Dec. 31.
That also was when the league largely had fully gone to school on the Heat’s zone.
“I think the zone really messed people up,” point guard Kyle Lowry said of the Heat’s early-season defensive success. “They adjusted to it. Now I think it’s just . . . I don’t know.
“We’ve got to look back at what’s going on. I know early in the year, we played a lot of zone and we slowed the pace down. Now we’re scoring more, and we’ve got to figure out how to find that balance of doing both, scoring and defending.”
In recent weeks, an uptick in the Heat offense had masked the defensive deficiencies.
Then the Nets arrived and seized upon a defense in decline.
“Just some of our coverages, some of our coverage that we were doing, usually our general schemes, they set us up against some of those coverages that we do every night, every game,” guard Tyler Herro said.
“We don’t give up 129 points to a lot of people. So that’s on us defensively, and we’ve got to be better.”
To center Bam Adebayo, it is a matter of talking it out, and beyond the video session Spoelstra has planned for Monday.
“I’d say the lack of communication when we get fatigued, I feel like that’s a big momentum shift,” Adebayo said. “When guys get fatigued, we stop talking and it hurts us, because we expect guys to be in certain places and we’re not. I just feel like we have mental lapses when we get fatigued.”
In many ways, it already has been a draining season. And yet now, with seven games remaining in the regular season, it is getting even more draining, with Saturday’s loss dropping the Heat to No. 7 in the East and a play-in seed.
“This locker room doesn’t want to be on the play-in. That’s not obviously on our radar.,” Herro said of the extra postseason round that requires at least one victory to advance to the best-of-seven first round. “We want to be in the top six and we feel like we have a great opportunity. But we are in the position to do what we want to do, it’s just at this point we have to do it.”
() | 2023-03-26T16:26:47+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/03/26/heat-no-longer-in-a-zone-leaving-them-defensively-deficient-and-desperate/ |
Chicago-area Regal movie theaters are reportedly among a list of nearly 40 locations expected to close after parent company Cineworld announced it was filing for bankruptcy last fall.
Business Insider reported the list of locations following a court hearing Tuesday, in which Cineworld said it planned to close 39 locations beginning Feb. 15.
Among the listed locations were two in Chicago suburbs. They included the Bolingbrook Stadium 12 and the Round Lake Beach Stadium 18.
Cineworld Group PLC, which owns Regal Cinemas, is one of the world's largest movie theater chains.
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The company previously said It expected operations to run normally following any bankruptcy filing and “ultimately to continue its business over the longer term with no significant impact upon its employees," CNBC reported.
It has about 28,000 workers, according to the company's website.
Nearly a dozen other locations had already shuttered prior to the recent announcement of additional closures. | 2023-01-20T16:30:55+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suburban-regal-movie-theaters-among-nearly-40-set-to-close-in-us/3050502/ |
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